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.