Rate My Professor Erin Clarke

Dr. Erin Clarke is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at The University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours Class I) in 2016 and PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics in 2021 from the same institution. Maintaining an active clinical practice, her research centers on dietary assessment using innovative technologies, dietary biomarkers, and the interplay between diet quality and health outcomes, especially for chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease and diabetes in rural, remote, and high-risk populations.

Since her PhD, Dr. Clarke has advanced precision and personalised nutrition, delving into gene-diet interactions and the dietary metabolome, pioneering novel biomarkers featured in high-impact journals such as Nutrients, Nutrition Reviews, and the British Journal of Nutrition. Notable publications include "The Relationship between Dietary Polyphenol Intakes and Urinary Polyphenol Concentrations in Adults Prescribed a High Vegetable and Fruit Diet" (2020), "Urinary biomarkers of dietary intake: a review" (2020), "The relationship between urinary polyphenol metabolites and dietary polyphenol intakes in young adults" (2022), "Red Blood Cell Membrane Fatty Acid Composition, Dietary Fatty Acid Intake and Diet Quality as Predictors of Inflammation in a Group of Australian Adults" (2023), and "Short-term skin carotenoid changes following consumption of a typical Australian diet versus a healthy Australian diet" (2024). She has attracted over $1,507,551 in funding, leading projects like the $449,000 NSW Cardiovascular grant for personalised nutrition in heart health (2025-2028). Awards encompass multiple HMRI EMCR accolades (2024), Healthcare 2020 Best Paper, Nutrition Society of Australia poster prizes (2018), and University of Newcastle research day awards (2019). In leadership, she contributes to the HMRI Food and Nutrition Research Program and Nutrition Society of Australia, promoting multidisciplinary collaborations with geneticists, psychologists, and industry partners to translate research into practice.