Rate My Professor Holly Wild

Holly Wild is a Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She completed a Bachelor of Health Sciences majoring in clinical nutrition and a Master of Public Health focusing on global health. After several years in the workforce, including lecturing in nutrition and public health nutrition at Torrens University while raising a young family, she pursued a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours). Her honours project on meal skipping among older people involved a scoping review, a systematic review identifying socio-ecological correlates across sociodemographic, behavioural, biomedical, psychological, and social domains, and primary data analysis from the ASPREE Longitudinal Study of Older Persons (ALSOP) database, revealing a 19.5% prevalence with associations to living alone, smoking, high alcohol use, poor oral health, diabetes, and frailty, but no link to all-cause mortality. She presented these findings at the 2022 ISBNPA Conference and the 2022 Australian Association of Gerontology Annual Conference. Currently, Holly Wild is a PhD candidate in the Behavioural and Social Epidemiology Research Group, investigating dietary protein intake, chronic disease, and mortality in community-dwelling adults over 70 using the ALSOP database, supervised by Professor Danijela Gasevic, Dr Alice Owen, and Professor Dragan Ilic.

Her research interests include nutritional epidemiology, chronic disease management and prevention, healthy ageing, sustainable healthcare, health equity, and evidence-based teaching and learning. Key publications are 'Nut consumption and disability-free survival in community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study' (Age and Ageing, 2024), 'Egg Consumption and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study of Australian Community-Dwelling Older Adults' (Nutrients, 2025), and 'Global, regional and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease study' (Nature Medicine, 2025). She serves as Chief Examiner for Foundations of Public Health (MPH5313, MPH5288, HSC5288) and Foundations of Health Promotion and Program Planning (MPH5306, MPH5002, HSC5020), and Unit Coordinator for multiple public health units including Public Health Fundamentals (MPH5288) and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HSC2300). Awards include the SPHPM Teaching Excellence Award (2024), Best Oral Presentation at the Nutrition Society Australia Annual Conference (2022), and Student Conference Award at the Australasian Epidemiology Association Annual Scientific Meeting (2023).