Rate My Professor Sherly Parackal

Parackal's research specializations encompass diet-related non-communicable diseases in the Asia-Pacific region, migrant health, Asian health, ethnic-specific dietary assessment, and community-centred intervention design and implementation via co-design. She is the Principal Investigator of the EMIGRATE project, examining health trajectories of ethnic voluntary migrants in New Zealand, and leads a diabetes prevention initiative in Bandung, Indonesia, in partnership with Padjadjaran University's Faculty of Medicine. She supervises PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers on projects such as co-designing sustainable interventions for type 2 diabetes prevention among Indonesian adolescents, developing fitted portion sizes for a New Zealand South Asian Food Frequency Questionnaire, and improving service delivery for South Asian women with gestational diabetes. Her key publications include 'Codesigning the South Asian Diet and Activity Intervention (SADAI): Process and outcomes' (Public Health Nutrition, 2025, with S.M. Parackal and R. Brown); 'Dietary beliefs, knowledge and behaviour of NZ South Asians at risk for cardiovascular disease' (Proceedings of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand, 2024, with K. Coppell et al.); 'Co-designing the South Asian Diet and Activity Intervention (SADAI): Process and Outcomes' (2025); and 'Asian migrants navigating New Zealand primary care: a qualitative study' (2023). She directs numerous projects, including co-designing culturally appropriate resources for cardiometabolic disease risk reduction among South Asians, piloting digitized health interventions, and developing South Asian-specific dietary assessment tools.