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BIOGRAPHY
Rachael Taylor is a Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago. She is Director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre and theme leader of the Healthy Weight stream in A Better Start, the National Science Challenge tasked with improving the health and wellbeing of our youngest tamariki in Aotearoa New Zealand.

She leads or co-leads several large randomised controlled trials investigating different approaches to effective weight management in children, whanau, and communities, focusing on diet, physical activity, sleep and screen time. She also leads work investigating how to improve measurement of key obesity-related behaviours and mechanistic studies investigating the links between diet, sleep and activity in children.