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Bridget Kelly is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia and has a research focus primarily in the medical field, with a particular emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health. Their scholarly work spans 82 publications within medicine, including 58 concentrated on public health. Other subfields of study include organizational behavior and human resource management, education, sociology and political science, and nutrition and dietetics.

The research topics Bridget Kelly addresses prominently include:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors

Kelly has contributed articles to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • Annual Review of Nutrition
  • Nutrients
  • Public Health Research & Practice

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bridget Kelly demonstrate a focus on public health and nutrition-related topics, especially relating to children's exposure to food marketing and healthy eating outcomes:

  • "Australian Children's Exposure to, and Engagement With, Web-Based Marketing of Food and Drink Brands: Cross-sectional Observational Study" (2021) published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • "Differential exposure to, and potential impact of, unhealthy advertising to children by socio-economic and ethnic groups: A systematic review of the evidence" (2020) in Obesity Reviews
  • "Experiential Learning Interventions and Healthy Eating Outcomes in Children: A Systematic Literature Review" (2021) appearing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Turning users into 'unofficial brand ambassadors': marketing of unhealthy food and non-alcoholic beverages on TikTok" (2022) in BMJ Global Health
  • "The relative importance of primary food choice factors among different consumer groups: A latent profile analysis" (2021) in Food Quality and Preference

Kelly frequently collaborates with several coauthors including Megan L. Hammersley, Erin Kerr, Simone Pettigrew, Tilakavati Karupaiah, and Anthony D. Okely. These individuals have contributed to multiple publications alongside Kelly, indicating sustained collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support): overview and key principles

    Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn;Gary Sacks;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Shiriki Kumanyika

  • Television food advertising to children: a global perspective.

    Bridget Kelly;Jason C.G. Halford;Emma J. Boyland;Kathy Chapman

  • Advertising as a cue to consume: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute exposure to unhealthy food and nonalcoholic beverage advertising on intake in children and adults

    Emma J Boyland;Sarah Nolan;Bridget Kelly;Catrin Tudur-Smith

  • Food Marketing Influences Children's Attitudes, Preferences and Consumption: A Systematic Critical Review.

    Rachel Smith;Bridget Kelly;Heather Yeatman;Emma J Boyland

  • Consumer testing of the acceptability and effectiveness of front-of-pack food labelling systems for the Australian grocery market

    Bridget Kelly;Clare Hughes;Kathy Chapman;Jimmy Chun Yu Louie

  • Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments: a proposed Government Healthy Food Environment Policy Index.

    Boyd Swinburn;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Vivica Kraak;Gary Sacks

  • Monitoring the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages in community and consumer retail food environments globally.

    C. Ni Mhurchu;S. Vandevijvere;W. Waterlander;L. E. Thornton

  • Global benchmarking of children's exposure to television advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages across 22 countries

    Bridget Kelly;Stefanie Vandevijvere;See Hoe Ng;Jean Adams

  • Digital junk: food and beverage marketing on Facebook.

    Becky Freeman;Bridget Kelly;Louise Baur;Kathy Chapman

  • Measuring local food environments: An overview of available methods and measures

    Bridget Kelly;Victoria M Flood;Heather Yeatman

  • Monitoring the price and affordability of foods and diets globally

    Andy Lee;Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Gary Sacks;Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn

  • Television food advertising to children: the extent and nature of exposure.

    Bridget Kelly;Benjamin John Smith;Lesley King;Victoria Flood

  • A Hierarchy of Unhealthy Food Promotion Effects: Identifying Methodological Approaches and Knowledge Gaps

    Bridget Kelly;MPsy Lesley King;Mnd Kathy Chapman;Emma Boyland

  • New Media but Same Old Tricks: Food Marketing to Children in the Digital Age

    Bridget Kelly;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Becky Freeman;Gabrielle Jenkin

  • Monitoring the impacts of trade agreements on food environments.

    Sharon Friel;Libby Hattersley;Wendy Snowdon;Wendy Snowdon;Anne Marie Thow

  • Munch and Move: evaluation of a preschool healthy eating and movement skill program

    Louise L Hardy;Lesley King;Bridget Kelly;Louise Farrell

  • Junk Food Marketing on Instagram: Content Analysis.

    Amy Jo Vassallo;Bridget Kelly;Lelin Zhang;Zhiyong Wang

  • Effects of nutrient content claims, sports celebrity endorsements and premium offers on pre-adolescent children's food preferences: experimental research.

    Helen Dixon;Maree Scully;Phillippa Niven;Bridget Kelly

  • Food advertising and eating behavior in children

    Frans Folkvord;Frans Folkvord;Doeschka J Anschütz;Emma Boyland;Bridget Kelly

  • Food Environment Interventions to Improve the Dietary Behavior of Young Adults in Tertiary Education Settings: A Systematic Literature Review

    Rajshri Roy;Bridget P Kelly;Anna Rangan;Margaret Allman-Farinelli

  • Monitoring the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages in community and consumer retail food environments globally

    Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Wilma Waterlander;Lukar E. Thornton

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathy Chapman
Kathy Chapman University of Sydney
Lesley King
Lesley King University of Sydney
Wendy Snowdon
Wendy Snowdon Deakin University
Stefanie Vandevijvere
Stefanie Vandevijvere University of Auckland
Louise A. Baur
Louise A. Baur University of Sydney
Simone Pettigrew
Simone Pettigrew George Institute for Global Health
Emma J. Boyland
Emma J. Boyland University of Liverpool
Gary Sacks
Gary Sacks Deakin University
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Corinna Hawkes
Corinna Hawkes City, University of London

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