Associate ProfessorKatherine Livingstone

Associate Professor Livingstone's research interests include:
* Dietary patterns
* Diet quality
* Obesity
* Personalised nutrition, including digital interventions
* Cardiovascular disease
* Young adults

Associate Professor Livingstone's research interests include developing personalised nutrition approaches to understand dietary patterns, diet quality and dietary
behaviours, their determinants and their link with obesity and cardiometabolic health. Her research program includes:
* Designing personalised nutrition approaches, including digital interventions, to improve dietary patterns
* Deriving diet quality indices and data-driven dietary patterns in population-based studies
* Understanding associations between dietary patterns and cardiometabolic health, and how biological characteristics and the food environment impact on these associations
* Identifying barriers and facilitators to improving diets and reducing dietary inequities

Associate Professor LIvingstone leads research projects in collaboration with stakeholders, such as the Heart Foundation and the City of Greater Bendigo.

Projects
* Veg4Me - A Heart Foundation-funded co-designed digital intervention to increase vegetable intake in young adults living in rural areas.
* Food4Me - Studies investigating the evidence base for web-based personalised nutrition via a pan-European trial.
* UK Biobank - Various projects to advance understanding of dietary patterns and associations with health outcomes, including the impact of genetic risk.
* Australian Health Survey 2011/13 - Multiple projects evaluating dietary patterns and their cross-sectional associations with health outcomes, including plant-based dietary patterns.
* AusDiab - Studies evaluating prospective associations between dietary patterns and cardiovascular disease.
* MyMeals - Studies evaluating biological and behavioural determinants of dietary intake and food preferences in young adults.