A/Prof Heather Yeatman

BSc (Adel.), DipEd (Adel.), GDipNutrDiet (Flinders), MPH (Syd.), Dr PH (UOW)

Position:

• Associate Professor in School of Health Sciences
• Coordinator, Master of Public Health Program

Teaching and Coordinating:

• Public Health Policy
• Food & Nutrition Policy

Research Interests:

• food and nutrition policy & regulation
• health promotion program evaluation
• community and professional roles in policy making, public health and local government

Research Affiliations (internal):

• Executive Director, Social Innovation Network
• Member, Food and Health Strategic Research Initiative
• Member, Australian Health Services Research Institute

Affiliations (external): (list sorted alpha)

• Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula
• Consumer and Public Health Dialogue, FSANZ
• Community Consultative Committee, APVMA
• Public Health Association of Australia, 2nd National Food Futures Conference 2011

Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

• Blewett, N., Goddard, N., Pettigrew, S., Reynolds, C. And Yeatman, H. (2011.  Labelling Logic.  Review of food labelling law & policy – Australia.  ISBN: 978-1-74241-398-3.
• Bondarianzadeh, D., Yeatman, H. & Condon-paoloni, D. (2011).  A qualitative study of the Australian midwives’ approaches to Listeria education as a food-related risk during pregnancy.  Midwifery, 27 (2), 221-228.
• Yeatman, H., Charlton, K. E. & Player, C. 2010, ‘Women’s perceptions relating to the introduction of mandatory iodine fortification in Australia’, Nutrition and Dietetics, vol.67, no. 1, pp. 13-17.
• Yeatman, H. (eds.) 2010, The SInet 2010 eBook, SInet University of Wollongong, Wollongong.
• Yeatman, H., 2009, “Action or inaction?  Food and nutrition in Australian local governments”, Public Health Nutrition, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 1399-1407.
• Yeatman H, 1995. National Review of Food & Nutrition in Local Government.
• WHO Report [pdf 838kb]

Email:       heather_yeatman@uow.edu.au
Phone:     +61 2 4221 3153
Phone:     B41.253