DrKatie Lacy

Katie’s research focuses on understanding and improving dietary behaviours and nutrition outcomes across childhood and adolescence. Her work examines how food environments, parental feeding practices, food literacy and nutrition education influence eating behaviours, dietary intake and health. Katie’s experience from a broad range of research methodologies, including systematic reviews, qualitative studies, epidemiological analyses and intervention-focused research, supports an approach that aims to generate evidence capable of informing real-world health promotion initiatives. She is passionate about advancing healthy and sustainable food choices and systems that enable children and adolescents to lead healthy lives.