Rachel is a Dietitian and Program Manager at Hunter New England Population Health and a current NHMRC Medical Research Future Fund Research Fellow. She leads an integrated research and service delivery team of dietitians, health promotion officers, post-doctoral researchers and PhD focused on infants, children and their families to address behavioural risk factors that prevent the onset of overweight and obesity and future chronic disease. She is passionate about implementation, scale-up and translating research into practice and focuses much of her work on digital technologies to support the delivery of evidence based programs at scale. She is currently scaling-up a nutrition intervention to support parents of primary school aged children nationally, which has been funded via an MRFF grant and is also working in partnership with Child and Family Health Nursing services locally to design, evacuate and scale-up a universal prevention service addressing the First 2000 days.