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Tracy Burrows

Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at University of Newcastle

Areas of expertise

  • - Dietary assessment using biomarkers
  • - Childhood obesity
  • - Nutrition translation in community and clinical settings
  • - Addictive overeating

Major works

  • Child obesity programs including HIKCUPS and Back to Basics, which are community based family based programs to achieve healthy lifestyle
  • Developing foundation work on food addiction

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About me

Tracy is a Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle in Australia. She is highly passionate about all things food, food behaviours, and communicating high quality, evidence-based information about diet and nutrition.

Tracy has published over 150 research papers and is involved in all aspects of teaching; from undergraduate through to postgraduate, where she supervises a variety of students.

Tracy has a focus on dietary assessment methods where she employs novel biomarkers as objective measures of diet, child obesity and translation community to clinical services and food addiction, which is a rapidly emerging area of research.