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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 9428
Email
rachael.mclean@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine
Qualifications
BA MB ChB MPH PhD(Otago) FNZCPHM
Research summary
Public health nutrition, dietary sodium, obesity, non-communicable disease

Research

Rachael is a public health physician with an expertise in nutrition. She is researching the relationship between food, nutrition and chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. Her research also focuses on environmental determinants of food and nutrition, with a focus on promoting equity.

Current research interests also include monitoring population dietary sodium intake, public health approaches to dietary sodium reduction, and the relationship between dietary sodium and cardiovascular disease.

Publications

Widyastuti, T. N., Turner, R., Harcombe, H., & McLean, R. (2025). Body Mass Index-z score trajectories of Indonesian children and adolescents between 1993-2014 and associated risk factors. Public Health Nutrition. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1017/s1368980025100499 Journal - Research Article

Eyles, H., Rapson, J., Fuavao, K., Jiang, Y., Kira, G., Wall, C., Skeaff, S., … McLean, R. (2024). The sodium, potassium, and iodine intake, and blood pressure of New Zealand school children: A cross-sectional survey. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand (NSNZ) 58th Annual Conference: Kotahitanga. (pp. 59). Retrieved from https://www.nsnzconference.co.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kataoka, M., Adam, L. A., Ball, L. E., Crowley, J., & McLean, R. M. (2024). Nutrition education and practice in university dental and oral health programmes and curricula: A scoping review. European Journal of Dental Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/eje.13045 Journal - Research Other

Hu, N., & McLean, R. (2024). Targeted approaches: Choosing sodium reduction methods based on salt usage habits. Nutrients, 16, 2816. doi: 10.3390/nu16172816 Journal - Research Other

McLean, R. M., Song, J., Wang, C., He, F. J., Cappuccio, F. P., Campbell, N. R. C., & MacGregor, G. A. (2024). Formula-led methods using first morning fasting spot urine to assess usual salt intake: A secondary analysis of PURE study data. Journal of Hypertension. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000003831 Journal - Research Article

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