Focuses on the behavioural, social and environmental influences on eating, sedentary behaviours and physical activity in infants and children, with particular emphasis on the home environment as a determinant of these behaviours. She leads an NHMRC funded obesity prevention intervention known as the Infant Feeding, Activity and Nutrition Trial (InFANT), which concludes in December 2010. This large cluster randomised controlled trial involves 560 first-time parents and their 3 to 18 month old infants