Director of the Australian Council of Learned Academies Limited, appointed 2023
Louise Baur holds the Chair of Child & Adolescent Health and is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow at The University of Sydney. She is a consultant paediatrician in Weight Management Services at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Louise has made research contributions in many aspects of the treatment and the prevention of child and adolescent obesity and in aspects of paediatric nutrition. She is Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Translating the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH CRE – www.earlychildhoodobesity.com). Louise is currently President of the World Obesity Federation (2022-2024) and President of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences (2023-2026).
[November 2023]