ProfessorSarah McNaughton

Professor Sarah McNaughton is a nutritional epidemiologist, Fellow of Dietitians Australia and a Registered Public Health Nutritionist.

She has over 25 years expertise in nutrition science and has published over 230 peer-reviewed papers. She completed her PhD at the University of
Queensland in 2003, and was subsequently appointed a Research Scientist in the MRC Centre for Human Nutrition Research (Cambridge, UK) and joined Deakin University in 2005. She has previously held nationally competitive fellowships from the ARC, Heart Foundation and NHMRC.

She has received funding from National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australian Research Council, Heart Foundation, Diabetes Australia Research Trust and World Cancer Research Fund. She has served on a range of national and international committees and advisory groups for the IARC, WHO, Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance, Heart Foundation and Nutrition Australia.

In September 2021, she was appointed Chair of the NHMRC Australian Dietary Guidelines Expert Committee.

Funding and Conflict of Interest Disclosures Professor McNaughton has received grant funding as a Chief Investigator from NHMRC, ARC, National Heart Foundation of Australia, Diabetes Australia Research Trust, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), and as a collaborator from the Eisele Family Foundation (US), Medibank Health Research Fund, World Cancer Research Fund, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, NZ Lottery Health Research Fund, Nutricia Research Foundation (2013-2014).

The Supermarket Healthy Eating for Life (Shelf) study was supported by a National Health & Medical Research Council Project Grant (ID594767,
2010-2012). Coles supermarkets provided financial and in-kind support for the study and the National Heart Foundation of Australia provided in-kind support for the study.

The ShopSmart 4 Health study was supported by the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (LP0990129, 2009-2012). Coles supermarkets and the National Heart Foundation of Australia provided in-kind but not financial support for the study.

Professor McNaughton has conducted contract work for the following organisations: National Heart Foundation of Australia, Food Standards
Australia New Zealand, World Health Organisation.

Appointments
2023: Deputy Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin University.

2022 - 2023: Alfred Deakin Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

June 2021 - 2022: Head, IPAN EMCR Development, Faculty of Health, Deakin University.

2018 - present: Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

June 2020 - Dec 2021: Deputy Director, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Faculty of Health, Deakin University.

2015 - 2020: Discipline Leader - Dietetics, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

2016 - 2019: NHMRC Career Development Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

2011 2015: Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences,
Deakin University.

2009 - 2011: National Heart Foundation of Australia Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

2005 - 2009: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Public Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Physical Activity and
Nutrition Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

June 2009: Visiting Research Fellow, Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London, United Kingdom.

May - Aug 2007: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London.

2003 - 2005: Research Scientist, Nutritional Epidemiology, Medical Research Council Collaborative Centre for Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom.