ProfessorElizabeth Denney-Wilson

Elizabeth Denney-Wilson is Professor of Nursing in the Sydney Nursing School. She has academic qualifications in nursing, public health, epidemiology and implementation science. Since completing her PhD in 2005, her research has focused on obesity prevention and management with a focus on the development of brief interventions (including mHealth interventions) targeting infant and young child feeding. Most of her research focuses on the Primary Health Care setting working with clinicians to design and test interventions that can be implemented at scale. Her research funding has included three Centre of Research Excellence grants as well as other category 1 funding. Elizabeth has long term collaborations with researchers across a broad range of health disciplines from Australian and International universities.

She has 3 current and 14 former PhD students. Her teaching focuses on preventive care, social determinants of health, primary health care principles and research methods. She recently completed terms as a member of two advisory committees: the WHO committee on child obesity management and the NHMRC obesity management guidelines committee. She is on the board of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network and chairs the board Quality and Safety committee.