Dr Smita Nambiar-Mann
Faculty of Health,
School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences
Biography
Dr Smita Nambiar-Mann is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, with over 20 years of experience across clinical practice, industry, and academia. Her research specialises in paediatric nutrition, growth and dietary assessment methodology, with a focus on health equity and childhood obesity prevention.Since 2020, Smita’s work has focused on families at risk of food insecurity, leading to the Responsive Feeding in Tough Times (R-FiTT) study funded by the Children’s Health Foundation Queensland/ Children’s Hospital Foundation. This mixed-methods, co-design project successfully delivered the digital micro-learning intervention, Eat, Learn, Grow. Recognising through this work that culturally diverse migrant populations remained underserved, Smita secured a Women in Research grant to investigate this critical gap. Her qualitative study, "Feeding practices used by culturally and linguistically diverse migrant caregivers in Australia: a qualitative study," partners with multicultural communities to understand existing parental feeding practices, and identify specific paediatric nutrition translation and resource requirements for these communities.
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences
Keywords
paediatrics, childhood obesity, nutrition, nutrition assessment, growth, parental feeding practices, food parenting practices, child eating behaviours, waist-height ratio, diet analysis
Research field
Nutrition and dietetics, Public health
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Accredited Practising Dietitian- Dietitian's Australia
Fellow- Higher Education Academy
Teaching
XNB148- Foundations in Nutrition Practice
XNB151- Food and Nutrition
XNB250- Food Chemistry and Technology
XNB252- Food and Nutrition Throughout the Lifecycle
XNB255- Nutritional Epidemiology
XNB277- Sports Nutrition
Publications
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/smita.nambiar
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Current supervisions
- Optimising food products to address nutritional needs for Australia's ageing population
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jolieke van der Pols, Associate Professor Gabriel Siqueira Trajano
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Dads At Mealtimes: Paternal Feeding Roles, Practices And Experiences In The Context Of Disadvantage (2024)
- Determinants and distribution of coexisting forms of malnutrition among neonates, infants and children of Pakistan (2023)
- The development and validation of nutrition assessment tools to explore contributing factors to childhood overweight and obesity in urban Vietnam (2023)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.