Rate My Professor Victoria Egli

Victoria Egli is an Associate Professor at the University of Waikato in the Te Wānanga Waiora Division of Health. She is a mixed-methods health researcher and social scientist specialising in child health, community health, and public health nutrition. Her work examines how environmental factors, including food marketing and advertising, influence children's nutritional health and health outcomes. Egli has led research projects employing co-design and creative approaches, and she pioneered the use of Google Street View to monitor outdoor food environments. Her research has addressed topics such as junk food advertisements near schools, alcohol advertising exposure for children, and active school travel among New Zealand children and youth.

Egli holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Auckland University of Technology. She serves as an Associate Professor in Health Equity and Innovation at the University of Waikato, where her contributions focus on generating knowledge that reaches those who can benefit from it through policy, community, and public health applications.