Dr Melanie Pescud
Melanie is a Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). Previously, Melanie was an Evaluation Adviser at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) and Research Manager at the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE). Prior this, she was a Research Fellow at both RegNet and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH).
Prior to joining ANU, Melanie spent eight years in Perth at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Across this time she worked at the Graduate School of Management, UWA Business School, the Health Promotion Evaluation Unity, and the School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health.
She has worked in the areas of child obesity prevention, health promotion, mental health, alcohol policy, nutrition literacy, Indigenous health, workplace health promotion and evaluation, health policy development, systems science, and qualitative research methodologies.
Research interests:
- Systems thinking
- Social determinants of health
- Health equity
- Public health nutrition
- Health promotion
- Health policy
- Obesity prevention
- Indigenous health
- Systems science
- Workplace health promotion and evaluation
- Social marketing
- Alcohol policy
Researchers call for a National Preventative Health Strategy that addresses the social and commercial drivers of health and health inequities in Australia
A submission to the Australian Department of Health’s con
Systems thinking across disciplines: Working, moving and living within systems- Podcast featuring Dr Melanie Pescud
In this podcast, RegNet’s Dr Melanie Pescud and Senior Systems Engineer Matthew Vella, talk about systems thinking across their respective disciplines of public health and engineering and identify
12 Pro Tips for Digital Interviews and Interactions
As COVID-19 disrupts our lives and our work, many qualitative researchers are rethinking how they might approach remote and online data collection.
Should we ban cake at work, like they do in childcare? - Melanie Pescud writes in News.com
RegNet Research Fellow, Melanie Pescud has weighed in to the debate on cake in the workplace.
Current
Addressing complexity in prevention research using systems approaches: systems case studies.
Using diverse case studies from Australia, this project will explore what and how systems approaches are being used in prevention research to address complexity and create real world change.
Completed
NHMRC Partnership Centre, Systems approach to healthy and equitable eating
NHMRC Partnership Centre, Systems approach to healthy and equitable eating
TAPPC Food Project HE2: A systems approach to healthy and equitable eating
When tackling a complex problem such as healthy eating, the tendency is to oversimplify the problem and therefore policy domains that give rise to outcomes of interest.
Author(s): Melanie Pescud, Ginny Sargent, Paul Kelly, Sharon Friel
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Melanie Pescud, Sharon Friel , Amanda Lee, Gary Sacks, Elizabeth Meertens, Rob Carter, Megan Cobcroft, Elizabeth Munn, Joanne Greenfield
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Sharon Friel, Melanie Pescud, Eleanor Malbon, Amanda Lee, Robert Carter, Joanne Greenfield, Megan Cobcroft, Jane Potter, Lucie Rychetnik, Beth Meertens
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Journal article
