Laureate Professor Clare Collins
Laureate Professor Clare Collins is a member of the NEW1000 Executive Board and the Research Lead for Nutrition.
Laureate Professor Collins is the Director of Research for the School of Health Sciences at the University of Newcastle and leads a large team of research dietitians internationally in developing food and nutrition eHealth tools and programs and evaluating the impact on eating patterns and diet-related health across key life stages.
Laureate Professor Collins is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Nutrition Society of Australia, and a Fellow of Dieticians Australia (DA).
In 2017, Laureate Professor Collins was awarded the prestigious Hunter Medical Research Institute, Researcher of the Year Award for research excellence.
In 2018 she was awarded the DA President's Award for Innovation in Honour of the Memory of Josephine Rogers for creating the online brief diet quality self-assessment tool - The Healthy Eating Quiz, which has now been completed by over 500,00 people.