DrRebecca Leech

Eating patterns and eating behaviours in relation to cardiometabolic health

Contextual and environmental correlates of eating behaviours

Clustering of lifestyle behaviours

Application of advanced, data-driven statistical methods to solve complex
research questions that relate to eating and health in the real world

Nutritional epidemiology

Knowledge Areas
* Nutritional epidemiology
* Advanced biostastics - with expertise in the applications of exploratory data-driven analytic methods such as latent class analysis, growth mixture modelling, cluster analysis
* Eating patterns and eating behaviours
* Obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors
* Clustering of lifestyle behaviours

Projects
Past Funded Projects

National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Fellowship
Investigator Grant: "Eating in context: Understanding the pathways through
which everyday contextual factors influence food choices and cardiometabolic
health" (APP1175250; $523,145; Jan 2021 - Dec 2024)

National Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Project: "Eating in
context: A multilevel approach to understanding eating patterns and their role
in cardiovascular health" (ID: 102138; $150,000; 2019-2021)

Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Project: "Eating patterns in
context: A multilevel approach to understanding eating patterns and their role
in cardiometabolic health" (Project ID: RM33996; $205,797; 2018-2019)

PhD project funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award: "Understanding adults'
eating patterns" ($88,0000; 2013-2017)