UTAS Better Health Research Theme public lecture: A Cook’s tour of obesity from a public health perspective

Dr Anne Grunseit is Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (TAPPC) based at the University of Sydney. She has over 20 years’ experience in behavioural epidemiology, evaluation and social research with government, university and non-government organisations. Her qualitative and quantitative research ranges across health prevention topics including physical (in)activity, sedentary behaviour, risk factors for obesity, unhealthy food advertising to children, and tobacco control. Her work with TAPPC also involves investigating the public’s perception of government intervention for the prevention of non-communicable disease and evaluation of large scale and complex government public health interventions. Anne is a co-coordinator of the USYD Masters of Public Health course “Public Health Program Evaluation” and has extensive experience conducting workshops on evaluation and research methods.