Helen Dixon
Cancer Council Victoria, VIC, Australia
- This delegate is presenting an abstract at this event.
Associate Professor Helen Dixon is a Principal Research Fellow at Cancer Council Victoria’s Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, where she specialises in research assessing public responses to health-relevant media and communications, especially in relation to nutrition and obesity prevention. This includes population surveys assessing reactions to public health mass media campaigns and experimental studies assessing responses to public health advertisements, nutrition labelling and commercial product marketing. Her many peer-reviewed publications and reports have helped evaluate and shape public health interventions and build the evidence base concerning effects of food marketing on children and adults.
Presentations this author is a contributor to:
Awareness and impact of the LiveLighter “toxic fat” obesity prevention campaign (#15)
12:00 PM
Belinda Morley
Symposium 1 - Social Marketing: who are we talking to and what are we saying?
Content analysis of public health campaigns promoting healthy weight and lifestyle (#112)
10:12 AM
Maree Scully
Oral Session - Public Health and Policy
Finding the keys to successful public health campaigns promoting healthy weight and lifestyle to adults: quantitative audience testing research (#229)
5:42 PM
Helen Dixon
Poster Session 2
Fighting back: can counter-advertising minimise the effects of unhealthy food marketing on pre-adolescent children? (#16)
12:15 PM
Helen Dixon
Symposium 1 - Social Marketing: who are we talking to and what are we saying?