Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 479 9428
- rachael.mclean@otago.ac.nz
University Links
- 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.