Emeritus ProfessorTony Worsley

Professor Tony Worsley is Professor of Behavioural Nutrition in the School of
Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and a member of the Centre for Physical
Activity and Nutrition Research (C-PAN). His interests are in social,
psychological and biological influences on human food behaviours, with
particular interest in nutrition promotion and population food behaviours in
the broadest sense. Professor Worsley has previously held a number of senior
public health appointments, most recently Professor of Public Health and
Foundation Director of Population Health, the Illawarra Health and Medical
Research Institute at the University of Wollongong, NSW. He has wide
experience in the evaluation of public health nutrition programs, and in the
promotion and maintenance of food behaviour change and has published widely in
scientific and professional journals.

Tony Worsley is Professor of Behavioural Nutrition at Deakin University. He
has held a number of professorial positions at universities in Australia and
New Zealand as well as in CSIRO. He has been a member of the Australian
Academy of Sciences' Nutrition Committee; Co-Executive Editor of Appetite, and
Foundation Co-Editor International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and
Physical Activity.

He has 30 years' experience in the evaluation of public health nutrition
programs, and in the promotion and maintenance of food behaviour change. He
has published widely in scientific and professional journals and had authored
several books including Nutrition Promotion, Public Health Nutrition (with M
Lawrence), Food People and Health, The Food System, The Use and Abuse of
Vitamins and the Body Owner's Manual.

His recent research projects include: The Five Country Survey of Consumers'
food risk perceptions; examination of gatekeeper behaviours in the obesogenic
household, the taxonomy of consumers' food knowledge; consumers' knowledge of
Australian agriculture, and a national survey of consumers' cooking skills
and interests.