Rachael is a public health physician with an expertise nutrition and Associate Professor at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. She is a strong advocate of including nutrition in health related and health professional programmes at the University. She is researching the relationship between food, nutrition and chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. Her research also focuses on environmental determinants of nutrition, with a focus on promoting equity.

Rachael also collaborates with researchers associated with Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research to investigate how public health approaches can reduce obesity and improve health outcomes for those with type 2 diabetes, and is Co-Director of the Cancer Society Research Collaboration.

Current research interests also include monitoring population dietary sodium intake, public health approaches to dietary sodium reduction, and the relationship between dietary sodium and cardiovascular disease and nutrition education in health professional programmes.

Contact email: rachael.mclean@otago.ac.nz