Full Name
Lyza Norton
Job Title / Position
Senior Paediatric Dietitian / Research Fellow
Company / Organisation
University of Western Sydney
Biography
Dr Norton has extensive clinical experience as a Senior Paediatric Dietitian working across the acute and community sector in the area of eating disorders, over the past two decades. Lyza is a postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Supporting Healthful Initiatives in Nutrition Education Project, instrumental in the development of consensus-based guidelines for safe nutrition messaging in schools. Lyza is passionate about integrating preventive interventions within the wider community and has research interests include the early years, food communication and preventive interventions. Her PhD; Promoting positive food parenting practices for disordered eating prevention: Adopting a knowledge translation approach (completed in 2023), has resulted in an intervention designed for parents to reduce their child’s risk of developing disordered eating. Dr Norton is passionate about using evidenced based strategies and frameworks adopted from social marketing, co-design and knowledge translation science to assist families in the real world.
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