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Professor Peter Howe

Professor Peter Howe
Name Peter Howe
Position Honorary Professor
Section Centre for Health Research (Research)
Email
Qualifications PhD Monash

Biography

Peter Howe, BSc (Syd), MSc (Oxon), PhD (Monash), FNSA, RNutr.

Professor of Clinical Nutrition, University of Southern Queensland

Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle

Chair, Advisory Committee for Complementary Medicines, Therapeutic Goods Administration

Member, Medical & Health Sciences Research Evaluation Committee, Excellence in Research for Australia

Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide

Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Centre

Research goal: strengthen evidence base for health benefits of functional foods and nutraceuticals through collaborative partnerships with industry

Extensive track record (>260 papers; H-index = 45) of preclinical and clinical research in nutrition, cardiovascular physiology and neuroscience

Founding and Emeritus Editor of the open access journal Nutrients

Research Career


  • Nutritional Physiology ( 111103 )
  • Food Nutritional Balance ( 300603 )
  • Food Sciences ( 300600 )

• Scientific substantiation of health promoting and therapeutic benefits of functional foods and dietary supplements (nutraceuticals).
• Evaluating cardiometabolic and mental health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, resveratrol, flavanols and dietary sodium restriction, alone or in combination with other lifestyle factors and/or drugs.


Nutrition Society of Australia (Fellow)
International Society of Hypertension
International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids & Lipids
High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia
Nutrition Australia (honorary member)
American Oil Chemists Society (Australasian chapter)


  • Institute for Agriculture and the Environment (IAgE)
  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)

Supervision


  • Nutritional Physiology ( 111103 )
  • Food Nutritional Balance ( 300603 )
  • Food Sciences ( 300600 )