Dr Margaret Murray is a Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, with the School of Health Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology. She is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food at Monash University.
Her main research focus is investigating the health impacts of food, nutrients and food components with a focus on reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and mental health disorders. Her focus is on the human aspect of food, nutrition and health. She has run multiple human clinical trials looking at how food and nutrition influence health outcome markers.
Margaret is also interested in other areas of nutrition, including educating people about nutrition, and the bigger picture of our food system and the relationship between the food system, human health and planetary health.