Jane Dixon

Person Type
Former Personnel
Institute
UNU-IIGH
Education
2022
Contacts
+60 3-9171 5394

Jane Dixon is a Visiting Research Fellow at UNU-IIGH. She is currently Senior Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, an Associate Fellow of the Food Policy Centre, City University, London, and Visiting Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health, London. She sits on the Editorial Board of World Food Policy, auspiced by the Royal Thai Institute. For 13 years, she has conducted research at the intersection of sociology and public health, with a focus on the cultural, social and health impacts of food system transformations. In this time she has authored and edited 6 books, and contributed to 35 book chapters and 50 peer review articles. Her fieldwork takes place mainly in Australia and Thailand. In more applied research, she has recently been an advisor on food systems and health to the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office and the International Union of Health Promotion and Education.