CLARE COLLINS

Laureate Professor, Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health, Medicine, Wellbeing University of Newcastle

Clare Collins AO is Laureate Professor, Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health, Medicine, Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, and Co-Director, Food & Nutrition Research Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute. She was appointed Officer, the Order of Australia in 2023 for distinguished service to health research in nutrition and dietetics, scientific organisations and science communication and is Fellow of 4 prestigious societies, including Nutrition Society of Australia, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, Royal Society of NSW and Dietitians Australia.

While her research outputs rank her performance as top 1% most cited nutrition scientists globally, her extensive nutrition science communication efforts exemplify community impact. The personalised nutrition eHealth tools she has invented and led, including the Healthy Eating Quiz (>800K completions) and No Money No Time website (>2.3M page views) show commitment to supporting vulnerable individuals in improving eating patterns, diet-related health and wellbeing within resource constraints.

As a voluntary nutrition science media commentator, she has performed over 3,000 media interviews, written 125 articles for The Conversation (>15.9 million global reader) and co-created the EdX Massive Open Online Course, The Science of Weight Loss - Dispelling Diet Myths (over >67,000 enrolled from180 countries) ensuring nutrition science is translated for public benefit.

In 2024 she was awarded the UON Alumni Medical for outstanding professional excellence. Career outputs include over $36 million research funding, more than 600 journal articles, and over 50 Research Higher Degree candidates supervised. A trailblazer in her field, L/Prof Collins was ranked highest female Investigator Grant in 2021 for her research in p\Precision and Personalised Nutrition and awarded the prestigious NHMRC, Elizabeth Blackburn Award for Leadership in Clinical Medicine and Science.

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