DrRebecca Lindberg

Early career fellowship offered by Deakin University for internal and external applicants. The fellowship was entitled 'Food For All: A Mixed Method Policy Study to Improve Household Food and Nutrition Security' and was supervised by Professor Sarah McNaughton, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Deakin Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition. It resulted in a multi-year collaboration with the Centre for Health and Nutrition (USA) exploring food security in young families, a Cochrane systematic review of policy interventions and a national study on diet quality and food security.

This Consensus Statement was prepared and approved by the Australian Household Food Security Data Coalition (AHFSDC). AHFSDC is comprised of concerned professionals who work on and research food insecurity across the disciplines of Public Health, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Sociology and Geography.

Invited guest editor, led by McKay, with van der Pligt, our Special Issue focused on research that sought to address food insecurity all over the world and in a variety of population groups, with a special focus on public health responses, initiatives, and interventions.

Invited to give expert evidence to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee on proposed taxation amendments to incentivise food donations to food security charities.

SIMNA is a growing network of members who believe that understanding and measuring social impact is critical to achieving the best possible outcomes for all Australians, our communities and our environment.

The collaboration known as SHARE (Solutions supporting Household Food Security in Australia through Research and Evidence) is a group of researchers from Universities across Australia.

Committee member for Omaha, Nebraska, USA, annual scientific meeting.

Selected as 2025 Faculty of Health delegate.

Speaker as part of an invited webinar on social protection and its role in protecting food and nutrition security. Held in advance of the World Public Health Nutrition Association's conference (London, UK).

Founder of this network of researchers based at Deakin University, investigating food insecurity, nutrition inequities and food justice. Includes health, social, nutrition and food environment researchers. Meets annually.

Founded and facilitated a national community of practice for PhD and ECR qualitative researchers.

ONLP is an initiative of the Nutrition Society of Australia in partnership with the Nutrition Society of New Zealand and the Pacific islands. The aim of ONLP is to develop, inspire and connect a new generation of innovative leaders with foresight and vision of the role of nutrition in Oceania (New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, the Cook Islands and Tonga). Selected as a 2018 leadership delegate.

Invited lecture to the Sustainable Healthy Food Group (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences), University of Oxford, UK.

Completed a 3-day intensive on SROI methods for evaluation and strategic planning. Delivered by Social Ventures Australia in Melbourne.