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Amanda Hill is a Research Fellow in Public Health Nutrition at Monash University's Department of Nutrition Dietetics & Food. She currently coordinates the Benchmarking for Healthy Stores project, which investigates continuous quality improvement models for remote food retail environments in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Nutrition & Dietetics (First Class Honours) awarded on 31 October 2009. With over 12 years of professional experience spanning clinical dietetics, community health, and public health nutrition, she has dedicated more than half her career to Aboriginal health services in the Northern Territory and international development work in the Pacific region.
Research interests center on social justice and health equity through community-centered public health initiatives. Her current work focuses on creating health-enabling food retail environments in remote Indigenous communities to improve purchasing patterns and wellbeing. Key areas include:
- Public health nutrition interventions
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health systems
- Food security in remote settings
- Health equity frameworks
- Indigenous community store environments
Her recent publications (2023-2024) demonstrate concentrated research on remote food retail benchmarking, environmental determinants of healthy retail practices, and community co-design methodologies, with strong emphasis on Indigenous health contexts and policy implementation.
Professional contributions include significant work toward UN Sustainable Development Goals related to nutrition, food security, and health equity. She maintains active research collaborations across Australia with focus on remote community health initiatives.
Affiliation details: Monash University Department of Nutrition Dietetics & Food, holding the position of Senior Research Officer with ORCID 0000-0002-8077-2216. Her research portfolio shows consistent output with 5 publications between 2011-2024, including high-impact journal articles in BMC Public Health and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.
