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Dr Anna Peeters

Major Qualification

Ph.D, B.Sc.(Hons)

Current Position

VicHealth Senior Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Track record and current interests

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.

Five relevant references in the past five years

  1. Walls H, Wolfe R, Haby MM, Magliano DJ, de Courten M, Reid CM, McNeil JJ, Shaw J, Peeters A. Trends in Body Mass Index in Urban Australian Adults, 1980-2000. PHN. Accepted July 20092007 Dec:246(6):1028-33
  2. Peeters A, O’Brien P, Laurie C, Anderson M, Wolfe R, Flum D, English D, Dixon J. Substantial intentional weight loss and survival in the severely obese. Annals of Surgery.
  3. Peeters A, Bonneux L, Nusselder WJ, de Laet C, Barendregt JJ. Adult obesity and the burden of disability throughout life: 46 years of follow-up of the Framingham Heart Study. Obesity Research. 2004. 12: 1154-1151
  4. Peeters A, Bonneux L, Barendregt JJ, Mackenbach J. Improvements in treatment of coronary heart disease and the cessation of the stroke mortality rate decline. Stroke. 2003. 34: 1610-1616.
  5. Peeters A, Barendregt J, Willekens F, Mackenbach J, Mamun AA, Bonneux L. Obesity in adulthood and its consequences for life expectancy: a lifetable analysis. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2003. 138:24-32.

Current Grants

  • 2008 ARC-Linkage grant Peeters A, de Courten M, Bilsborough S. Global Corporate Challenge Evaluation: The evaluation of a low-cost, low-impact physical-activity workplace intervention
  • 2006 NHMRC. Loff, B., Peeters, A., Swinburn, B., Lawrence, M., Ackland. M. A comprehensive regulatory strategy for obesity prevention in Australia..
  • 2006 NHMRC McNeil JJ, Peeters A, Oldenburg B, Hollingsworth B, Nelson M, de Courten M. Better targeting of preventive services using epidemiological modelling.
  • 2003 VicHealth Research Fellowship Investigating the long-term health implications of obesity in adulthood.