Empowering Health Literacy Together

HealthWise helps you improve your health literacy and validate information you receive in diet, exercise, sleep, and mental health, to make informed health choices and improve your well-being.

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HealthWise team is part of Appleton Institute, CQUniversity, Australia.

We have team members across Australia, with members in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, and Rockhampton

Here is a list of our members:

Dr Saman Khalesi

Group Lead

Area: dietary behaviours and supplements, gut health, chronic disease prevention, and health behaviours

CQUniversity

A/Prof Grace Vincent

Area: sleep and health in workplaces, interactions of physical activity and diet on sleep, and behavioural interventions to improve sleep health

CQUniversity

Dr Charlotte Gupta

Area: nonstandard work hours, interactions between diet and sleep, sleep and diet interventions to improve alertness, safety, and productivity in the workplace, impact of food timing on metabolic health

CQUniversity

Dr Anna Balzer

Area: dietary supplements, effects of nutrition on chronic disease, metabolic syndrome

CQUniversity

Dr Chris Irwin

Area: nutrition and human behaviour/performance, sports nutrition, alcohol and other drugs (e.g. cannabis) on cognitive and applied performance, factors contributing to dietary patterns and disease, nutrition labelling accuracy

Griffith University

Dr Dean Miller

Area: sleep, circadian rhythms, and health-related behaviours in high-performance environments

CQUniversity

Farhang Jafari

PhD Candidate

Area: diabetes, health behaviour, chronic diseases, food labels and ingredients

CQUniversity

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