Rate My Professor Jacqueline Walker

Walker's research specializations include the prevention and management of childhood overweight and obesity and associated comorbidities from systems and individual perspectives, achieving optimal nutrition and physical activity outcomes for children with disabilities, nutrition for child and adolescent athletes, and nutrition and physical activity recommendations across the lifespan. Her expertise spans biomedical and clinical sciences, health sciences, nutrition and dietetics, paediatrics, and public health nutrition. She has led and contributed to several funded projects, including Prevention Systems Research Support from Health and Wellbeing Queensland (2023–2025), Evaluation of the Healthier Drinks at Healthcare Facilities as part of the CHQ Obesity Strategy (2017–2020), Expansion, evaluation and sustainability of a new paediatric multidisciplinary weight management service from Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (2016–2020), and Evaluation of a new paediatric multidisciplinary weight management service funded by UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund - FirstLink (2016–2017). Key publications include the book chapter 'Assessment of nutritional state: dietetic, energy and macronutrients' (2020) in Nutrition and neurodisability; 'Dietary strategies for obesity' (Nutrients, 2023); 'Applying the Integrated Sustainability Framework to explore the long-term sustainability of nutrition education programs in schools: a systematic review' (Public Health Nutrition, 2023); 'Was it a HIIT? A process evaluation of a school-based high-intensity interval training intervention' (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2024); and 'Mission and money: a scoping review of social enterprise business models as a solution to sustaining health-promoting food and nutrition-based initiatives' (BMC Public Health, 2025).