Catharine Fleming

• Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Western Sydney University

Dr Catharine Fleming is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health in the School of Medicine, Western Sydney University and is Stream Co-Lead for Youth Participation and Engagement in the Young and Resilient Research Centre. Dr Fleming has a PhD in paediatric nutrition and dietetics and over 15 years' experience in paediatric nutrition relating to infant and young child feeding, paediatric food allergy and childhood obesity. Dr Fleming has research experience in mixed methods, co design, clinical and public health research methodologies covering quantitative, qualitative and data linkage studies. This experience has involved working with families, children and population-based data in paediatric nutrition in a variety of clinical, community and global settings. Dr Fleming is building a body of work focusing on protecting against lifelong chronic disease through investigating different aspects of feeding and diet in the most teachable moments of childhood and adolescence. Dr Fleming is passionate about ensuring a sustainable nutritional change occurs for children and adolescents through co-designed and development of interventions and policies by young people for young people.

• 2024–present Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Western Sydney University

• 2016 PhD, UNSW Paediatric nutrition and dietetics
• 2007 BSc Hons, Wollongong University

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