
School of Medicine, Deakin University
Honorary Principal Research Fellow
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
Black Dog Institute
Professor Felice Jacka is an NHMRC Career Development Fellow at Deakin University. She is president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders (APMD). Professor Jacka has pioneered and led a highly innovative program of research that examines how individuals’ diets, and other lifestyle behaviours, interact with the risk for mental health problems. This research is being carried out with the ultimate goal of developing new, evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies for mental disorders.