Background
- Senior Lecturer and Sydney Horizon Fellow, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney
- National Heart Foundation of Australia Future Leader Fellow
- Emerging Professionals Network Co-chair
Stephanie Partridge
PhD, B Sc (Hons I)
Dr Stephanie Partridge is a Sydney Horizon Fellow and National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the University of Sydney. She is an Accredited Practising Dietitian by training. Her research is focused on harnessing digital technologies to create healthy societies and improve the health of young people. Her research aims to find solutions to improve eating behaviours, physical activity levels and mental wellbeing in young people. She is committed to conducting studies that are relevant to young people and aims to achieve this by involving them actively in all phases of research. She currently leads three large research projects funded by the Medical Research Futures Fund of Australia and New South Wales Health and is the primary supervisor of four PhD students. In 2023, she won the Emerging Leader in Science Eureka Prize in recognition of her research. She has been actively involved in IAAH since 2018.