Research Fellow
Deakin University, Australia
Dr Rebecca Leech is a Registered Nutritionist and Nutritional Epidemiologist, funded by a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellowship and a NHF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. She is based at Deakin’s Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition and is also the Student Mentoring Chair for the Nutrition Society of Australia. Rebecca has a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology, and in 2018, was awarded an Alfred Deakin Medal for her doctoral thesis, which examined adults’ eating patterns and their associations with diet quality and obesity. Her postdoctoral research, extends on this, and applies novel analytic approaches to understand determinants of food intake at eating occasions and the role of eating patterns in cardiometabolic health in adults.