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Jane Scott is Professor of Public Health Nutrition and Deputy Head of the School of Public Health at Curtin University in Perth. She is a nutritional epidemiologist with a particular interest in the epidemiology and determinants of early childhood feeding practices. Originally trained as a Nutritionist/Dietitian she worked at Curtin University from 1983 to 1996, where she completed a MPH and her PhD. She then moved to Scotland where she worked at the University of Glasgow from 2000-2007, and then at Flinders University from 2007, before returning to Curtin University in 2013.
She has published widely in leading international journals and received competitive funding from the NHMRC, Healthway, the Wellcome Trust, the European Union, the Chief Scientists Office for Scotland, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing and SA Health. She has been a Chief Investigator on a number of longitudinal studies including the first and second Perth Infant Feeding Studies and the EU funded multi-centre INFABIO project. She was a technical writer on the 2012 edition of the NHMRC Infant Feeding Guidelines and she has served as a technical expert on projects for both the UN and WHO. Her research has underpinned national and international policy and practice, and her publications have been cited as supporting evidence in a variety of national and international strategy and policy documents.
Most recently she was the Principal Investigator for Parent Infant Feeding Initiative (2014-2016) which developed and trialed Milk Man, an innovative breastfeeding smartphone app targeting fathers. She is a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC funded Study of Mothers’ and Infants’ Life Events Affecting Oral Health (SMILE). This Adelaide-based birth cohort study is investigating the association of early life events, including infant feeding practices, and early childhood caries.
In May 2013 Jane was inducted as a Fellow of Dietitians Australia.