Dr Lauren Blekkenhorst is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia Emerging Leadership Fellow (EL1) and a National Heart Foundation of Australia Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Nutrition and Health Innovation Research Institute at Edith Cowan University. She is a Registered Nutritionist (2013-current) with the Nutrition Society of Australia and was awarded her PhD in July 2019 from The University of Western Australia. She has expertise in nutritional epidemiology and dietary intervention studies and leads an internationally recognised research program to better understand the cardiovascular health effects of specific vegetables and their bioactive constituents, as well as finding new and improved ways to increase vegetable consumption within the population to reduce the burden associated with cardiovascular disease.
View Lauren’s research projects & publications on her ECU profile