DrEllie Dunlop

2025-: Research Fellow, Institute for
Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University

2023-2024: MS Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for
Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
2021-2023: Research Associate, Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin
University
2021: Sessional Academic, Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin
University
2019-2021: Research Assistant, Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin
University
2005-2008: Complaints Resolution Coordinator/Acting Complaints Resolution
Manager for rural and remote areas of Western Australia, South Australia and
the Northern Territory, Regional Core Service, Telstra
1999-2005: Resource Planner for the Gascoyne, Midwest, Wheatbelt and
Goldfields, Telstra

Dr Eleanor (Ellie) Dunlop is an Accredited Practising Dietitian, Registered Nutritionist and Research Fellow at Deakin University's Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN). She graduated from the Master of Dietetics course at Curtin University in 2017, receiving the Underwood Prize for Most Outstanding Student Dietitian. Her Master of Dietetics research projects provided preliminary data for two successful NHMRC applications by Professor Lucinda Black to investigate dietary vitamin D in the general Australian (GNT1140611) and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (GNT1184788) populations. Ellie's PhD project, Investigating dietary vitamin D in Australia, for which she was awarded the Curtin University Chancellor's commendation, aligned with NHMRC GNT1140611 and produced Australia's first comprehensive vitamin D food composition database, Australia's first estimates of usual vitamin D intakes based on comprehensive vitamin D food composition data and globally-relevant data on the effect of vitamin D from fortified foods on circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations. Alongside her PhD project, Ellie worked on a Hort Innovation project (CIB; $420K, 2021-2022) to update food composition data for Australian-grown fruit and vegetables, and other projects investigating the role of diet in multiple sclerosis. In the same year that her PhD award was conferred, Ellie was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by MS Australia to investigate dietary factors in the onset of MS in childhood. She now works as Project Manager for the Bush Tucker-Vitamin D and Connecting with Country for Healthy Eating projects while continuing her work on dietary vitamin D, vitamin K, food composition and the role of diet in the onset and progression of MS.