Briar McKenzie

About Briar McKenzie

Research Fellow

  • PhD,
  • Master of Dietetics,
  • Bachelor of Science (Human Nutrition)

Briar is a National Heart Foundation of Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Accredited Practicing Dietitian within the Food Policy Division and the Professorial Unit at The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney. She is also a conjoint lecturer with UNSW. Her work is currently focused on two main areas: firstly, investigating the relationship between diet and poor brain health in Australia, and secondly, scaling-up of food policy interventions in Pacific Island Countries.

Briar was awarded her PhD in March 2022. Her PhD focused on investigating the relationship of sex and gender with the diet-related burden of cardiometabolic diseases. She used both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate this topic. Throughout her PhD she worked as a research associate for the WHO Collaborating Center on Population Salt Reduction, at The George Institute.

Briar holds an undergraduate degree in Nutritional Science (BSc) and a Master’s of Dietetics (MDiet) from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Publications

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Diet Quality Indices, All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, and Dementia-Outcomes from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health

The Journal of Nutrition Date published:

Ultra-processed food consumption in the central division of Fiji

BMC Medicine Date published:

Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours toward Salt and Sugar Consumption in the Central Division of Fiji

Nutrients Date published:

Policies on the collection, analysis, and reporting of sex and gender in Australian health and medical research: a mixed methods study

Medical Journal of Australia Date published:

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