| Professor Elizabeth Waters |
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Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health |
| Biography |
Professor Elizabeth Waters is Professorial Fellow: Public Health and Health Equity with the McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne. She holds a Master of Public Health from Monash University (1993) and a DPhil from the University of Oxford (2001).
Professor Waters' contribution to public health extends beyond national committees to include WHO, UNICEF, and the international Cochrane Collaboration, a not-for-profit organisation of over 15000 authors and members, which seeks to develop best evidence on the effectiveness of health interventions. Professor Waters is an elected member of the Steering Group and Board of Directors, and leads the Health Promotion and Public Health Field and emerging Public Health Group, which aims to provide best available evidence for public health decision making for upstream interventions. With the World Health Organisation, Professor Waters is a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Committees on childhood obesity prevention, childhood growth standards, mental health promotion and equity measurement.
Key research highlights include university-community research partnerships with Moreland Community Health Service: fun n healthy in Moreland!; a 5 year school-community program to improve child health and wellbeing and prevent overweight and obesity; Teeth Tales, a study of socio-cultural determinants of oral health in families from new and emerging communities; the VicGeneration study, a new birth cohort to examine the environmental, social, behavioural and biological risk and protective factors for child health inequalities; the development of the international measure of quality of life for children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CPQOL) and a range of knowledge translation research to build understanding of what methods work and are cost-effective in terms of knowledge uptake.
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