Jane Martin

Jane Martin is the Executive Manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) which is a partnership of Cancer Council Victoria, Diabetes Australia Victoria, the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University. The OPC advocates for policy and regulatory reform to prevent overweight and obesity in Australia, with a focus on labelling, food marketing and tax and pricing strategies.

Jane is a recipient of The Jack Brockhoff Foundation Churchill Fellowship to study advocacy strategies to encourage government to adopt evidence-based policies to prevent Australians becoming overweight and obese. As part of the fellowship Jane is travelling to the UK and USA during November 2012 to February 2013.