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Dr Sharon Friel BSc Hons (Strathclyde, UK), MSc (NUI, Galway), PhD (NUI, Galway) Current Position: Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia Phone: +61 2 6125 0721 Fax: +61 2 6125 0740 Email: sharon.friel@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• social inequalities in health
• diet and health
• food poverty
• nutrition and health surveillance
• health promotion - policy and practice
• obesity

Selected Recent Publications

Burns C, Friel S. It is time to determine the cost of a healthy diet in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2007; 31(4) 363-365.

Kjellstrom T, Friel S, Dixon J, Corvalan C, Rehfuess E, Campbell-Lendrum D, Gore F, Bartram J. Urban Environmental Health Hazards and Health Equity. Journal of Urban Health 2007; 84(1S) 86-97.

Dixon J, Omwega AM, Friel S, Burns C, Donati K, Carlisle R. The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems. Journal of Urban Health 2007; 84(1S) 118-129.

Molcho M, Nic Gabhainn S, Friel S, Kelleher CC. Food poverty and health among schoolchildren: Findings from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC). Public Health Nutrition 2007; 10(4), 364-370.

Dixon J, Banwell C, Seubsman S, Kanponai W, Friel S, McLennan R. Dietary diversity in Khon Kaen, Thailand, 1988-2006. International Journal of Epidemiology 2007; 36, 518-521.

Butler C, Friel S. Time to regenerate: ecosystems and health promotion. PLoS Medicine 2006; 3(10): e394.

Friel S, Walsh O, McCarthy D. Irony of a rich country: issues of financial access to and availability of healthy food in the Republic of Ireland. J. Epidemiol. Community Health 2006; 60;1013-1019.

Friel S, Newell J, Kelleher CC. Who eats four or more servings of fruit and vegetables per day? Classification tree analysis of data from the 1998 Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition in the Republic of Ireland. Public Health Nutrition 2005; 8(2) 159-169.

Friel S, McMichael AJ, Kjellstrom T, Prapamontol T. The housing and health transition in Thailand. Reviews of Environmental Health 2004.19, 3-4, 311-328.

Friel S, Conlon C . What is the extent of food poverty in Ireland? European Journal of Public Health 2004; 13(4): 133.

Friel S, Conlon C. Food Poverty and Policy. 2004; Dublin: Combat Poverty Agency.