Professor Louise Baur

Professor of Child & Adolescent Health
Director of EPOCH-Translate CRE

Louise Baur is the Professor of Child & Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney. She also has a conjoint position in the Sydney School of Public Health. In addition, Louise is a consultant paediatrician at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network where she is an active member – and former Head – of Weight Management Services, a multidisciplinary clinical service for children and adolescents with obesity. She is also the President-Elect of the World Obesity Federation from 2020-2022, and President from 2022-2024.

Louise is an internationally recognised childhood obesity researcher who has been instrumental in raising the profile of childhood obesity as an issue of global public health and clinical importance. Her research has helped define management efforts for childhood obesity and improved understanding of the prevention of obesity in the first few years. In recent years, her work has also had a focus on the double burden of malnutrition in Asia.

In 2014 Louise became a Founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences, Australia’s newest learned Academy. In 2010 Louise was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) “for service to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatric obesity as a researcher and academic, and to the community through support for a range of children’s charities”.

Louise Baur is the Director of the CRE and will contribute to the work of each of the three Streams.

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Email: louise.baur@health.nsw.gov.au

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