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Overview

Wendy Snowdon is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and business, management, and accounting. Their work primarily centers on public health, environmental and occupational health, organizational behavior, and human resource management, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to health sciences and management.

The scientist's research frequently addresses topics related to global public health policies and epidemiology, obesity, physical activity and diet, nutritional studies and diet, cardiovascular health and risk factors, community health and development, public health and social inequalities, and emergency and acute care studies.

Recent publications by Wendy Snowdon include the following papers:

  • "Progress in the Pacific on sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: a systematic review of policy changes from 2000 to 2019" (2021) published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • "Baseline status of policy and legislation actions to address non communicable diseases crisis in the Pacific" (2020) published in BMC Public Health
  • "The tide of dietary risks for noncommunicable diseases in Pacific Islands: an analysis of population NCD surveys" (2022) published in BMC Public Health
  • "Assessing the progress on the implementation of policy and legislation actions to address the Non-Communicable Diseases crisis in the Pacific" (2022) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Barriers and facilitators to the introduction of import duties designed to prevent noncommunicable disease in Tonga: a case study" (2021) published in Globalization and Health

Wendy Snowdon's frequent coauthors include Elisiva Na'ati, Gade Waqa, Colin Bell, Si Thu Win Tin, and Andrea Teng, indicating a collaborative network within public health research related to the Pacific region.

Their publications appear in journals and venues that regularly feature work on public health and policy, including BMC Public Health, Research Square, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, PLoS ONE, and Globalization and Health.

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

  • 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

  • Monitoring the price and affordability of foods and diets globally

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

  • International collaborative project to compare and monitor the nutritional composition of processed foods

    Elizabeth Dunford;Elizabeth Dunford;Jacqui Webster;Adriana Blanco Metzler;Sebastien Czernichow

  • Monitoring the impacts of trade agreements on food environments.

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

  • A new generation of trade policy: potential risks to diet-related health from the trans pacific partnership agreement

    Sharon Friel;Deborah Gleeson;Anne Marie Thow;Ronald Labonte

  • Trade policy and obesity prevention: challenges and innovation in the Pacific Islands

    Wendy Snowdon;A. M. Thow

  • Monitoring the health-related labelling of foods and non-alcoholic beverages in retail settings

    Mike Rayner;Amanda Wood;Mark Lawrence;Cliona Ni Mhurchu

  • Monitoring and benchmarking population diet quality globally: a step-wise approach

    Stefanie Vandevijvere;C. Monteiro;Susan Krebs-Smith;Amanda Lee

  • Monitoring food and non-alcoholic beverage promotions to children.

    Bridget Kelly;Lesley King;Louise Baur;Mike Rayner

  • 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

  • Processed foods available in the Pacific Islands

    Wendy Snowdon;Astika Raj;Erica Reeve;Rachael L T Guerrero

  • A proposed approach to monitor private-sector policies and practices related to food environments, obesity and non-communicable disease prevention.

    Gary Sacks;Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn;Vivica Kraak;Shauna Downs

  • Monitoring the levels of important nutrients in the food supply

    Bruce Neal;Gary Sacks;Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn;Stefanie Vandevijvere

  • Will the next generation of preferential trade and investment agreements undermine prevention of noncommunicable diseases? A prospective policy analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement

    Anne Marie Thow;Wendy Snowdon;Ronald Labonté;Deborah Gleeson

  • Outcome results for the Ma'alahi Youth Project, a Tongan community‐based obesity prevention programme for adolescents

    KF Fotu;L Millar;H Mavoa;P Kremer

  • Applications of nutrient profiling: potential role in diet-related chronic disease prevention and the feasibility of a core nutrient-profiling system

    G Sacks;M Rayner;L Stockley;P Scarborough

  • The effect of trade and trade policy on diet and health in the Pacific Islands.

    Anne-Marie Thow;Wendy Snowdon

  • The Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities project: project overview and methods

    Boyd Swinburn;L Millar;L Millar;Jennifer Utter;P Kremer;P Kremer

  • Prioritizing areas for action in the field of population-based prevention of childhood obesity

    Gary Sacks;Jane Shill;Wendy Snowdon;Boyd Swinburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Sacks
Gary Sacks Deakin University
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Stefanie Vandevijvere
Stefanie Vandevijvere University of Auckland
Bridget Kelly
Bridget Kelly University of Wollongong
Corinna Hawkes
Corinna Hawkes City, University of London
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Carlos Augusto Monteiro
Carlos Augusto Monteiro Universidade de São Paulo
Anne Marie Thow
Anne Marie Thow University of Sydney
Peter Kremer
Peter Kremer Deakin University
Marita P. McCabe
Marita P. McCabe Swinburne University of Technology

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