Rate My Professor Jennifer Koplin

Associate Professor Jennifer Koplin is Group Leader of the Childhood Allergy and Epidemiology Research Group and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Queensland Child Health Research Centre in the Faculty of Medicine. She holds a PhD and has over 15 years of research experience in epidemiology and allergy. Previously, from 2019 to 2022, she was Director of the NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence in Food Allergy (CFAR) and Group Leader of the Population Allergy Research Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne. She currently leads the Evidence and Translation Hub of the National Allergy Centre of Excellence and the Food Allergy Prevention stream of CFAR, and serves as Principal Research Fellow with the HERA 360-Kids Community Network.

Koplin has led major NHMRC-funded population-based cohort studies, including the EarlyNuts study and the age-10 follow-up of the HealthNuts cohort involving over 7,000 participants, to investigate the prevalence, natural history, causes, and consequences of childhood food allergy. She is co-investigator on SchoolNuts, MACS, food allergy prevention RCTs such as VITALITY, PrEggNuts, TrEAT, and Pebbles, and the food allergy treatment RCT LMNOP. Her research program has secured over $20 million in competitive funding as chief investigator, including six NHMRC project grants and two consecutive NHMRC fellowships. She has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles with over 4,500 citations, including key publications such as "Association between earlier introduction of peanut and prevalence of peanut allergy in infants in Australia" (JAMA, 2022), "Earlier ingestion of peanut after changes to infant feeding guidelines: the EarlyNuts study" (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2019), and "Role of domestic animal exposure" (Encyclopedia of Food Allergy, 2024). Koplin serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice and contributed to the development of new Australian and international guidelines on infant feeding for preventing food allergy. Her work focuses on population-based strategies to reduce allergy prevalence.