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Kathy Trieu

UNSW Sydney, The George Institute for Global Health, The University of Sydney

Research areas: Medicine · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · Sodium Intake and Health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1848-2741
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  • Switching the world’s salt supply for cardiovascular prevention NHMRC
    2025 - 2030
  • Switch Australia’s Salt Supply National Heart Foundation of Australia
    2025 - 2027
  • Scaling up innovative interventions to reduce diet-related diseases and disparities in Australia National Heart Foundation of Australia
    2025 - 2029
  • Integrating potassium-enriched salt into usual healthcare practice for hypertension management in Australia UNSW Sydney
    2025 - 2025
  • Adaptation of WHO SE Asia Region sodium benchmarks for packaged foods in Indonesia World Health Organization
    2025 - 2025
  • Food as medicine: Produce prescription during pregnancy Hort Innovation
    2024 - 2027
  • GrainSwitch: An innovative online grocery shopping intervention to encourage healthy grain food choices among Australians at risk of cardiovascular disease National Heart Foundation of Australia
    2024 - 2024
  • Explore links between food security and health to inform policy and service priorities for communities living in high flood risk areas of the northern coast of Central Java, Indonesia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    2023 - 2025
  • Produce Prescription: innovative ‘Food is Medicine’ intervention to improve health among people with type 2 diabetes Ian Potter Foundation
    2023 - 2028
  • Development of sodium benchmarks for food categories in WHO South‐East Asia Region World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia
    2022 - 2023
  • Modelling the health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of implementing WHO global sodium benchmarks in India World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia
    2022 - 2023
  • Scaling-up reduced-sodium salts to reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke: influencing governments, markets and communities Ian Potter Foundation
    2022 - 2027
  • Food is medicine: developing and piloting a produce prescription program for expectant mothers experiencing food insecurity to prevent gestational diabetes George Institute for Global Health
    2022 - 2023
  • The SaltSwitch Online Grocery Shopping (OGS) Trial: A Novel Method for Reducing Blood Pressure among Individuals with Hypertension National Health and Medical Research Council
    2021 - 2023
  • Technical assistance to support the salt reduction strategy in Thailand Foreign and Commonwealth Office
    2021 - 2022
  • Evaluating the Implementation and Scale-Up of Nigeria National Sodium Reduction Program National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
    2020 - 2026
  • Mid-term evaluation of Mongolia’s national salt reduction strategy World Health Organization
    2020 - 2020
  • Survey of salt levels in street foods to strengthen salt reduction action in Malaysia Vital Strategies
    2020 - 2022
  • Population strategies to achieve optimal intakes of sodium and potassium for the prevention of hypertension and cardiovascular disease National Health and Medical Research Council
    2019 - 2023
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship (Award ID102140) National Heart Foundation of Australia
    2019 - 2021
  • Effectiveness of community-based food hubs and peer support on food accessibility and dietary intake Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise
    2019 - 2020
  • Developing and testing reduced sodium fish sauce Vital Strategies
    2019 - 2020
  • Technical initiatives for food companies to adopt to address obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
    2019 - 2019
  • To develop an evaluation tool for mid-term evaluation of the national salt reduction strategy to prevent and control of Non-communicable Diseases for Malaysia 2015-2020 World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office
    2018 - 2019
  • Modelling reductions in salt levels of foods to achieve the 2025 global salt target in countries in the European Region World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
    2016 - 2017
  • Establish baseline monitoring data for salt consumption in Vanuatu and develop protocol and tools for baseline monitoring that can be used by other countries World Health Organization
    2016 - 2017
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to reduce population salt intake National Health and Medical Research Council
    2016 - 2019
  • Support planning, implementation and evaluation of Victorian Salt Reduction Initiative through leading the research and evaluation, public awareness and communication Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
    2015 - 2017
  • Production of evidence review and situational analysis to guide state-level sodium reduction initiatives in Victoria, to strengthen our evidence base for action in terms of healthy eating and will be used by VicHealth and partner agencies Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
    2013 - 2015

Publications (193)