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Dr

Priscila Machado

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow

Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition

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  • NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
    Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
  • +61 3 991 89061 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Dr Machado is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) at Deakin University. She is a Nutritionist and holds a Masters and PhD in Public Health Nutrition.

Her research focuses on understanding the role of ultra-processed foods in the food system and human health, evaluation of sustainable healthy diets, and nutrition policy. This includes substantial experience in the Nova food classification system and its identification of ultra-processed foods, dietary patterns research using complex datasets (e.g. national surveys, cohort studies), developing methodologies to incorporate food processing on health and sustainability assessments, and policy analysis.

She was able to attract >$1.5M in fellowships and grants, including an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021-23), succesful in a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), and led (CIA) a 2023 Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant. She was awarded a 2024 NHMRC Investigator Grant Emerging Leadership Fellowship to address the burden of chronic diseases attributable to ultra-processed foods in Australia to commence in 2025.

Dr Machado has supervised 4 Masters and 1 PhD student to completion, and currently supervises 4 PhD candidates, and 1 postdoctoral fellow.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
    Deakin University, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Science
    University of Sao Paulo
  • Masters of Science
    University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Bachelor of Nutrition
    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Nutrition and dietetics
  • Nutritional epidemiology
  • Public health
  • Clinical sciences

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition

RESEARCH STRENGTHS