Professor Roger Hughes
BSc Qld., GradDip Nut&Diet Qld.UT, GradDip HlthPromo Curtin, MPH Curtin, PhD Griff.
Position: Chair of Public Health Nutrition
Office: T3.26
Tel: +61 7 5456 5046
Fax: +61 7 5456 4880
Email: rhughes1@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Community and Public Health Nutrition
- Nutrition and Dietetic Practice Management
- Food and Society
- Research Dissertations
Research areas
- maternal and infant nutrition
- public health intervention research
- workforce development
- obesity prevention
- nutrition education
Profile
Professor Roger Hughes joined USC in mid-2008 as Australia’s first Chair of Public Health Nutrition, after more than 10 years as Foundation Program Convenor of Griffith University’s Master of Nutrition and Dietetics program.
His research interests focus on public health nutrition practice and capacity building, particularly the development and evaluation of population-based nutrition and physical activity promotion interventions.
For the last five years, Roger has been at the forefront of public health nutrition workforce development research in Australia and internationally. He is Vice-President (Professional Afffairs) of the World Public Health Nutrition Association and Deputy Editor of the journal Public Health Nutrition. Since 2001, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and in 2008/2009 was Visiting Professor in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin.
Publications
Many of Professor Roger Hughes' publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Research grants
- Development of a quality vocational system for public health nutrition in Europe: The JobNut Project. EU Commision, Directorate General Education and Culture, Leonardo Da Vinci Program [2006-2008].
- Growing Years Project: Nutrition and Physical Activity promotion targeting pregnant women and infants from disadvantaged backgrounds. Health Promotion Queensland [2005-2009].
- Use of the Norfolk Island Isolate to Identify Genetic Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease. National Heart Foundation [2006-2009].
- Use of the Norfolk Island Genetic Isolate for Disease Gene Mapping. National Health and Medical Research Council [2007-2009]
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