Dr. Catherine Paquet is Program Director: Masters by Research Degrees and Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences and a member of the Australian Centre for Precision Health. Her primary research interest lies in the influence of contextual factors on chronic diseases and health-related behaviours. She is particularly interested in the community and organisational factors that shape dietary behaviours and how such factors can be changed to promote optimal nutrition across the lifespan. Her research builds on her unique multidisciplinary training in physiology, consumer psychology, advanced statistics, and epidemiology.
Catherine obtained her PhD from McGill University and held a post-doctoral position at the... Read more
About me
Dr. Catherine Paquet is Program Director: Masters by Research Degrees and Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences and a member of the Australian Centre for Precision Health. Her primary research interest lies in the influence of contextual factors on chronic diseases and health-related behaviours. She is particularly interested in the community and organisational factors that shape dietary behaviours and how such factors can be changed to promote optimal nutrition across the lifespan. Her research builds on her unique multidisciplinary training in physiology, consumer psychology, advanced statistics, and epidemiology.
Catherine obtained her PhD from McGill University and held a post-doctoral position at the Université de Montréal before joining UniSA in 2008. She currently teaches topics related to epidemiology and research methods, online as well as face-to-face, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
She has received financial support from a number of national and international agencies including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Fulbright Commission (USA), National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is currently Associate Editor for BMC Public Health.
Dr. Paquet has supervised and mentored many research students (Honours, Masters, PhD) and invites potential Masters or PhD students with an interest in community-level and psychosocial factors contributing to optimal nutrition and health across the lifespan (from early childhood to old age) and quantitative methods to contact her by email to discuss potential projects.
About me
Post Doctorate in Socialepidemiology University of Montreal
Doctor of Philosophy in Management McGill University
Environmental influences on food behaviour, cardio-metabolic health and psychological well-being.
Role of psychological factors in shaping one’s response to environmental influences.
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Respiratory health in adult children of people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Physiotherapy Research Foundation, 01/09/2016 - 31/05/2018
Investigating social, built and physical environment factors for remote Indigenous communities, and their relationships with cardiometabolic outcomes, ARC - Discovery Projects, 31/10/2012 - 30/06/2016
Linking place to metabolic syndrome via behavioral & psychosocial antecedents, SA Dept of Health, 02/07/2010 - 30/05/2016
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Open access
1
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| 2023 |
3
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
9
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| 2022 |
Open access
11
7
9
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| 2021 |
14
9
1
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| 2021 |
19
14
6
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| 2021 |
Open access
15
1
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| 2021 |
Open access
5
3
58
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| 2021 |
Open access
9
5
7
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| 2021 |
Open access
5
4
2
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| 2021 |
Open access
7
5
4
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| 2020 |
Open access
4
3
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| 2020 |
Open access
5
5
4
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| 2020 |
5
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| 2020 |
7
4
65
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| 2020 |
Open access
4
3
5
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| 2020 |
Open access
10
7
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| 2020 |
26
20
14
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| 2020 |
Open access
21
15
16
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| 2019 |
Open access
4
4
1
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| 2019 |
7
4
2
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| 2019 |
Open access
173
133
60
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| 2019 |
Open access
1
2
2
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| 2018 |
Open access
14
11
4
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| 2018 |
Open access
11
9
5
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| 2018 |
Open access
19
18
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| 2018 |
Open access
1
3
5
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| 2018 |
72
58
35
|
| 2018 |
Open access
15
15
13
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| 2017 |
Open access
11
10
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| 2017 |
26
24
4
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| 2017 |
1
1
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| 2017 |
Open access
5
8
18
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| 2017 |
Open access
100
80
33
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| 2017 |
Open access
14
13
6
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| 2017 |
Open access
16
12
15
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| 2016 |
Open access
27
22
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| 2016 |
12
11
3
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| 2016 |
Open access
14
13
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| 2016 |
8
7
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| 2016 |
Open access
12
12
2
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| 2016 |
Open access
22
20
3
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| 2015 |
Open access
35
24
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| 2015 |
28
26
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| 2015 |
Open access
10
8
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| 2014 |
Open access
21
25
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| 2014 |
Open access
27
24
22
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| 2014 |
Open access
5
6
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| 2014 |
Open access
114
56
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| 2014 |
Open access
25
19
1
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| 2013 |
Open access
59
53
13
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| 2013 |
Open access
37
37
2
|
| 2013 |
10
10
|
| 2013 |
Open access
6
6
3
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| 2013 |
Open access
5
5
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| 2013 |
Open access
19
14
7
|
| 2013 |
102
85
1
|
| 2013 |
Open access
6
6
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| 2012 |
Open access
29
20
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| 2010 |
27
26
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| 2010 |
25
21
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| 2010 |
Open access
60
57
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| 2010 |
32
30
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| 2009 |
12
12
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| 2009 |
Open access
31
16
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| 2009 |
Open access
1
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| 2009 |
Open access
93
77
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| 2009 |
Open access
20
19
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| 2008 |
Open access
90
86
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| 2008 |
Open access
48
42
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Research
Environmental influences on food behaviour, cardio-metabolic health and psychological well-being.
Role of psychological factors in shaping one’s response to environmental influences.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Aboriginal Women's Advisory Group | AUSTRALIA |
| Auckland District Health Board | NEW ZEALAND |
| Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
| Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute | AUSTRALIA |
| Cancer Council of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Central Australian Aboriginal Congress | AUSTRALIA |
| Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | CANADA |
| Centre for Health | NEW ZEALAND |
| Centre IPC Paris | FRANCE |
| de Montigny Consulting | CANADA |
| Douglas Mental Health University Institute | CANADA |
| Drexel University | UNITED STATES |
| E'cole Polytechnique de Montre'al | CANADA |
| Finnish Institute of Occupational Health | FINLAND |
| Flinders Medical Centre | AUSTRALIA |
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| Heart Foundation of Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| INCLEN Trust International | INDIA |
| International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) Trust | INDIA |
| Jamia Millia Islamia | INDIA |
| Johns Hopkins University | UNITED STATES |
| Lund University | SWEDEN |
| McGill University | CANADA |
| Menzies School of Health Research | AUSTRALIA |
| Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
| Murdoch Childrens Research Institute | AUSTRALIA |
| Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council | AUSTRALIA |
| NHS Foundation Trust | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Pepperdine University | UNITED STATES |
| Queen's University | CANADA |
| Repatriation General Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
| Sheffield Hallam University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Sorbonne University | FRANCE |
| South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) | AUSTRALIA |
| State University of Londrina | BRAZIL |
| Te Roopu a lwi o Te Araa Charitable Trust Inc. | NEW ZEALAND |
| Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | BRAZIL |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Alberta | CANADA |
| University of Auckland | NEW ZEALAND |
| University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Helsinki | FINLAND |
| University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Montreal | CANADA |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | UNITED STATES |
| University of Ontario Institute of Technology | CANADA |
| University of Otago | NEW ZEALAND |
| University of Rio Grande do Sul | BRAZIL |
| University of Sao Paulo | BRAZIL |
| University of Sherbrooke | CANADA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University Of South Carolina - Columbia | UNITED STATES |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Toronto | CANADA |
| University of Turku | FINLAND |
| Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Associate EditorBMC Public Health |
2018 |
Associate EditorBMC Public Health |
2017 |
Training FellowshipNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2009 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| The role of local government in enabling active travel for older residents in South Australia | Current |
| Art and attention restoration theory: how landscape-themed art may contribute to a restorative environment in windowless workplaces | Completed |
| Documenting patterns in advertising post-testing measurement | Completed |
| Heartfelt way: characterising Aboriginal women¿s cardiovascular health protection and risk to inform health service and system responses | Completed |
| Integrating complex systems methods to explore the influence of the built environment on cardiometabolic risk | Completed |
| Longitudinal changes in South Australian metropolitan firefighter lung function | Completed |
| Neighbourhood environment and cardiometabolic risk: perception and reality | Completed |
| Offspring of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): intergenerational and life course influence on respiratory impairment | Completed |
| Public open space `greenness¿ in urban residential environments: prospective associations with mental health and potential psychosocial explanatory mechanisms | Completed |
| Reshaping antecedents of health behaviour: Planning, implementing, and evaluating a theory-based health promotion program in a remotely-located, predominantly male workplace | Completed |
| Sleep and cardiometabolic health: a multidimensional and compositional approach | Completed |
| The contributions of compositional and contextual features of local residential areas to the evolution of cardiometabolic risk over ten years in a population-based biomedical cohort | Completed |
| The time-varying effects of neighbourhood social fragmentation on trajectories of mental health-related quality of life | Completed |
| Validation of process evaluation tools to assess community readiness and intervention dose: application to a multi-site community-based childhood obesity prevention program | Completed |
