Melanie Wakefield

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Melanie Ann Wakefield AO FASSA is an Australian psychologist and behavioural researcher at the Cancer Council of Victoria. She has worked extensively on cancer prevention including tobacco control, through the introduction of plain-paper packaging.

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Academic career

Wakefield has a BA, GradDip in applied psychology, (1981) [1] MA and PhD (1994) [2] from the University of Adelaide. [3]

Wakefield has been Director of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer at the Cancer Council of Victoria since 2002. [4]

Wakefield was a member of the Prevention and Community Health Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council from 2012 to 2015. [5]

She is an honorary professor in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. [6]

Honours and recognition

Wakefield was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2011. [3] She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to medical research in the fields of population health and cancer prevention, and as a mentor". [7]

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References

  1. Bullock, Melanie (1981), Attributions, beliefs in addictions and persistence in smoking , retrieved 16 January 2021
  2. Wakefield, Melanie (1994), Evaluation of a smoking cessation intervention for pregnant women and their partners attending a public hospital antenatal clinic, University of Adelaide, Dept. of Community Medicine, retrieved 16 January 2021
  3. 1 2 "Academy Fellow: Professor Melanie Wakefield AO, FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 16 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "OFFICER (AO) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA" (PDF). It's An Honour. Retrieved 16 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "17 Aug 2017 - Prevention and Community Health Committee (PCHC) | National ... - Archived Website". Trove. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  6. "Prof Melanie Wakefield". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 16 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "Professor Melanie Ann Wakefield". It's An Honour. Retrieved 16 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Melanie Wakefield

Born
Melanie Ann Bullock
NationalityAustralian
Academic background
Alma mater University of Adelaide
Thesis Evaluation of a smoking cessation intervention for pregnant women and their partners attending a public hospital antenatal clinic (1994)