Bridget Kelly, PhD

About

Bridget Kelly Gillott, PhD is a Dietitian and Associate Professor in Public Health Nutrition at the Early Start Institute, University of Wollongong, Australia. She has almost two decades of experience in leading national and international research that seeks to foster supportive food environments, particularly for children. She is a world leader in the field of critical food marketing, whose research has generated evidence on the scope of unhealthy food marketing to children, the impact of this marketing on children’s diets and policy options to restrict exposures. She is the co-Director of a WHO Collaborating Centre on Children’s Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity. A major activity for this Centre is to provide support to the WHO for disseminating and implementing the Regional Action Framework on Protecting Children from the Harmful Impact of Food Marketing in the Western Pacific. She was an inaugural member of INFORMAS, a global consortium of academic researchers and public interest organisations that seeks to monitor and benchmark food environments, with a view to supporting and catalysing policy development. For over a decade, she has been the INFOMAS lead on food marketing monitoring and has supported evidence-building in this field globally.