Dr Brittany J Johnson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Flinders University
Stream 1 Lead

Dr Brittany Johnson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Flinders University, Caring Futures Institute, and a The Hospital Research Foundation Group Early-Mid Career Research Fellow. She obtained a PhD in Public Health (Flinders University, conferred 2020) which identified intervention content to support parents to reduce provision of unhealthy foods to their young children, during the transition from preschool to school. Britt’s research aims to equip families with practical strategies to ensure children eat well, move more, and get enough sleep, to support health, development, and growth. She has expertise in applying behaviour change theory to understand current behaviours and how we can positively shift behaviours.

She led the deconstructing interventions component of the TOPCHILD Collaboration funded by an NHMRC Ideas Grant (2020-23), and currently leads TOPCHILD-Policy, which is the translation of the TOPCHILD Collaboration evidence synthesis into policy and practice settings, using an integrated knowledge translation approach. The TOPCHILD Collaboration is an international project that brings together researchers from over 20 countries to transform early childhood obesity prevention, by exploring past, ongoing and planned interventions to understand how they work, and for whom. Brittany is a Stream 1 Lead.

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Email: brittany.johnson@flinders.edu.au
Twitter: @brittanyjayne8