ProfessorMark Lawrence

Regular media appearances in print, TV and radio

World Public Health Nutrition Association (previous Secretary General)

Public Health Association of Australia (previous Convenor of Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group)

Nutrition Society of Australia

Dietitians Association of Australia

Australian Public Health Nutrition Academic Collaboration

Awards

2019 Visiting Professor, Qingdao University

2019 Visiting Research Fellow, Yunnan Agricultural University

2017 Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia

2014 British Medical Association Book Awards, Food fortification: The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food, highly commended in the Health and Social Care category

2014 Adjunct Professor, Curtin University

2014 Honorary Fellow, Centre for Food Policy, City University London

2012 Co-presenter, Best research report award, World Nutrition2012, Rio, Brazil

2009 Victorian Healthcare Awards: Premiers Excellence Award (Tackling chronic disease and improving public health category). WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention: Highly Commended.

1997 NHMRC, Public Health and Research Development Committee Scholarship (PhD candidature: 1997 - 2000)

1996 Invited Chair, Working Party: Health and Nutrition Claims, Codex Committee on Food Labelling, Ottawa

1995 National Food Authority Development Award 1995 1996 (work placements at the US Food and Drug Administration and UK Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food)

1991 Course Distinction (M.Sc, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

1990 VicHealth Inaugural Public Health Fellowship (1990-1993)

Invited keynote: Lawrence M. New approaches to evidence synthesis and translation for food and nutrition policy, World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2020, 31 March to Friday 3 April 2020, Brisbane.

Invited keynote: Lawrence M. The science and politics of synthesising and translating evidence into nutrition policy, Nutrition Society of Australia Annual General meeting, Nutrition Science: The nexus between health policy and practice, 27-30 November 2018, Canberra.

Invited keynote: Lawrence M. Regulating to protect public health and environmental sustainability. PHAA Food Futures conference, 20-21 November 2018, Brisbane

Lawrence M, Pollard C, Lee A, Woods J, Stanton R, Friel S, Vidgen H. A critical policy analysis of the Australian Healthy Food Partnership, 15th World Congress on public health, 3 7 April 2017, Melbourne

Invited keynote speaker, Successful obesity prevention requires tackling competing border views, Annual conference, Home Economics Institute of Australia 11-13 January 2017, Melbourne.