Dr Anna Peeters

BSc(Hons), PhD

Senior Research Fellow

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Dr Anna Peeters is a public health researcher, particularly interested in the provision of information to facilitate objective and equitable choices in public health by policy makers, practitioners and the public. Her public health training began in the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, analyzing the issues surrounding chronic disease in an aging population, and then continued in the Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre (The Netherlands) where she extended her research interests to obesity - investigating the relationship between increasing weight and loss of life expectancy and life expectancy free of and with disease and disability.

In 2003, she commenced a VicHealth fellowship to further explore this research in the Australian context. The fellowship aims to comprehensively describe the burden of overweight and obesity in terms of lifetime risks of disease and years lived with disease and disability. These findings will be used to describe the implications of trends in obesity for population health and socio-economic inequalities in health in the Australian population. Anna sits on the executive of the Monash Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) and the Monash Obesity Initiative, on the council of the Australia New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS), and on the Parent’s Jury steering committee.