Dr Erin Pitt

Biography

Erin Pitt is a Research Fellow within the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre (CPC). Erin’s research activities are currently focused on child and youth cancer and personalised cancer care. Whilst relatively new to the centre, Erin endeavours to develop and contribute to a program of research around nutritional determinants associated with cancer and palliative care within the child and adolescent years.

Erin possesses a Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition); a Master of Public Health, majoring in Epidemiology and Research Methods, and recently obtained her PhD in early 2020. Erin’s doctoral research investigated the influence of local food environments and socio-ecological determinants on early childhood dietary intake using a mixed methods research approach, which had a strong focus on nutritional epidemiology in the context of public health nutrition.

Prior to commencing in CPC, Erin was a Lecturer within the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences (SENS) at QUT, both coordinating and teaching into core undergraduate nutrition units including Nutrition Assessment, Nutrition Science and Nutritional Epidemiology. Erin has a strong kill set in epidemiology and data analysis, being adept in a wide variety of mainstream and advanced statistical analysis techniques including logistic regression, latent variable techniques and longitudinal data analysis.

Erin is also an experienced Public Health Nutritionist, having been involved in the design, implementation, evaluation and management of community-based public health nutrition interventions in a range of settings and locations including remote South West Queensland and the Brisbane metropolitan region. Erin has expertise in collaborating with diverse stakeholders including local governments, local food stores, schools, industry bodies and a number of other government and non-government organisations. She has contributed to and led interventions and research endeavours with a focus on rural and remote food supply issues, Aboriginal and Torres Staid Islander Nutrition, children’s food literacy, and local government nutrition-related policy and planning.