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Dr Jane Dixon BA (Soc Wk) (SAIT); MSW (UNSW); PhD (RMIT). Current Position: Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 5623 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: Jane.Dixon@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• The socio-cultural determinants of obesity in Australia and Thailand
  
• The public health impacts of food system transformations in Australia and Thailand
  
• Urbanicity's role in food system transformations, with implications for rural-urban livelihoods and rural-urban health inequities
  
• The social transmissions of health damaging and promoting social practices.
  

Selected Recent Publications

Dixon J, Broom D. The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity: How the modern world is making us fat. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2007.

Dixon J. ‘Advisor for healthy life: Supermarkets as new food authorities’ in Burch D, Lawrence G. (eds), Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains: Transformations in the Production and Consumption of Foods, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007.

Dixon J, Banwell C, Seubsman S-A, Kanponai W, Friel S, MacLennan R. Dietary diversity in Khon Kaen, Thailand, 1988-2006. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2007; doi:10.1093/ije/dy1288, pp.1-4.

Dixon J, Hinde S, Banwell C. Obesity, convenience and ‘phood’. British Food Journal. 2006; 108 (8): 634-645.

Hinde S, Dixon, J. Changing the ‘obesogenic environment’: insights from a cultural economy of car-reliance, Transportation Research Part D - Transport and the Environment, 2005; 10: 31-53.

Dixon J, Banwell C. Re-embedding trust:unravelling the construction of modern diets. Critical Public Health, 2004; 14 (2):117-31.

Humphreys J, Dixon J. Access and equity in Australian rural health services, Chapter 6. In: Healy J, McKee M. (eds) Accessing Healthcare: responding to diversity. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2004.

Dixon J. Authority, power and value in contemporary industrial food systems. International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food. 2003; 11(1).

Dixon J. The Changing Chicken. Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Cultures, UNSW Press, 2002. Reviews.

Sibthorpe B, Dixon J. Re-thinking evaluation for policy action on the social origins of health and well-being. In: Eckersley, R., Dixon J, Douglas R.(eds), The Social Origins of Health and Well-being. Cambridge University Press 2001. Review