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 Email

Research Interests

• The socio-cultural determinants of obesity in Australia and Thailand
  
• The public health impacts of food system transformations in Australia and Thailand
  
• Identifying and characterising resilient food systems to protect and promote population health in a changing climate
  
• The social transmissions of health damaging and promoting social practices.
  

Selected Recent Publications

Dixon J, Banwell C. Theoretically-driven research for explaining health risk transitions: the case of smoking. Social Science & Medicine, 2009. doi:10.101016/j.socscimed.2009.03.025.

Dixon J, Donati K, Pike L, Hattersley L. Functional foods and urban agriculture: two responses to climate change related food insecurity. NSW Public Health Bulletin, 2009; 20 (1-2):14-18.

Dixon J, Capon A. Healthy, just and eco-sensitive cities: moving forward, Guest Editorial, NSW Public Health Bulletin. Nov/Dec 2007; 18 (11-12): 209-212.

Hinde S, Dixon J. Reinstating Pierre Bourdieu’s contribution to cultural economy theorising. Journal of Sociology, 2007; 43(4): 401-420.

Dixon J. Operating upstream and downstream: how supermarkets exercise power in the food system, in A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite, 3rd ed, (eds. J. Germov, and L.Williams) , Oxford University Press, 2008: 100-124

Dixon J, Broom D. The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity: How the modern world is mak2008ing 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.

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.