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DR Felice NELLIE JACKA

Professor Nutritional Psychiatry, Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University

Felice Jacka OAM is Alfred Deakin Professor of Nutritional Psychiatry and Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, and founder of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. The results of the studies she has led have been cited in more than 100 policy documents globally (e.g., WHO, UNICEF) and influenced clinical guidelines in psychiatry in Australia and elsewhere. She is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher (2020-2022), putting her in the top 0.1% of publishing scientists worldwide for impact. In 2021 she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her services to Nutritional Psychiatry.