Nurse, Public Health, Health Promotion, and Human Nutrition
Specialty: Family Medicine
Sharon has a nursing/midwifery background and has completed Masters degrees in – Public Health; Health Promotion, and Human Nutrition through Deakin University. She is a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and has worked at Avondale University in a casual academic role within the School of Nursing. Sharon is deeply passionate about community health promotion through research, education, and coaching. She is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Wollongong. Her thesis focuses on an intervention to increase the vegetable intake of 3-5-year-old children while they attend Early Childhood Education and Care services. The project is funded through a NSW Health Prevention Research Partnership Grant, in collaboration with Local Health Districts in Illawarra Shoalhaven and Western Sydney.