DrBenjamin Wood

Research Fellow

Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

  • Research Fellow
    Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

BIO

Ben is a Research Fellow with the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University. Ben received his PhD from the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, which examined the public health implications of excessive market power in the food manufacturing sector globally. He also holds a Master of Global Health (University of Barcelona) and a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (University of Tasmania).

Ben is an emerging international research leader in public health whose current research mostly focuses on the political economy of food systems, as well as understanding and addressing the ways in which large corporate and financial actors adversely influence health and equity.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Research Fellow
    Deakin University, School of Health and Social Development

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Deakin University
  • Master of Global Health
    Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
    University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Public health
  • Political economy and social change
  • Corporate governance
  • Health policy

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Health and Social Development

SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP

  • Institute for Health Transformation