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Dr Zhaoli Dai-Keller

Dr Zhaoli Dai-Keller

Lecturer

Ph.D. (Epidemiology): National University of Singapore (Oct 2015)

Medicine & Health
School of Population Health

Dr. Dai-Keller is a Lecturer at the School of Population Health. Her research and teaching focus on chronic disease prevention, food policy, research integrity, and health disparities.

As a nutritional epidemiologist primarily studying ageing, Zhaoli (Joy) has led multiple projects using population-based cohorts, nationally representative survey data, and electronic health records in Singapore, the US, and Australia to study dietary factors and other modifiable risk factors for the develop...
E-mail
z.daikeller@unsw.edu.au
Location
School of Population Health

  • Unraveling lifestyle patterns for better health outcome 

Role: Principal investigator (funded $10,000; July 2023; UNSW School of Population Health)

  • Evaluation of current and potential dietary data collection methods at UNSW

Role: Co-Principal investigator (funded $8,500; July 2023; UNSW SPH & SoHS)

  • Identifying culturally appropriate and feasible strategies to improve hospital food service in older inpatients from racial and ethnic minority groups 

  • (Flinders Health & Medical Research Institute Kickstart program for ECRs, funded with 20,000 AUD, Dec 2022; Flinders University) 
    Role: Chief investigator A

  • COMPare Conflicts: A Real-time Audit of Conflict of Interest Disclosures in Major Medical Journals
    (USyd - Yonsei - Partnership Collaboration Awards, funded with 20,000 AUD; 2020-2022; University of Sydney) 
    Role: Co-Investigator

  • Evidence use in genetically modified products (SJTU, funded with 5,000 AUD, Sept 2019; University of Sydney)                                                             
    Role: Chief investigator A

 

  • Summer scholarship awarded to two MD pathway students under my supervised projects (Flinders University; December 2022)
  • Travel Award sponsored by the University of Sydney Pharmacy School 2019 Travel Support Grant (University of Sydney; July 2019)
  • Travel Award sponsored by Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (BNORC) (Harvard University, Boston University, and Tufts University; 2018)
  • Travel award sponsored by the Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs at Boston University (2017)
  • Travel award sponsored by the North America Chinese Society for Nutrition and America Society for Nutrition (US; 2017)
  • National Institute of Health (T32 fellowship) (US NIH; 2015-2018)
  • 2nd Place Laboratory Clinical Research Award in the Evans Department of Medicine Research Days Poster Session (Boston University School of Medicine; 2016)
  • Young Investigator Award by the 4th International Osteoporosis Foundation - Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2014 (Taiwan; 2014)
  • Best Poster Award by International Life Sciences Institute Southeast Asia Region 2013 (Singapore; 2013)
  • Young Investigator Award by the 3rd International Osteoporosis Foundation - Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2012 (Malaysia; 2012)

  • diet, nutrition, and medication use to promote healthy ageing and healthy longevity
  • lifestyle patterns in disease management
  • hospital food service and nutrition quality 
  • optimisation of telehealth utilisation in disease management 
  • systematic reviews related to food, nutrition, health, and research integrity

 

In the media:

Editorial services:

  • Associate editor: Public Health Nutrition (2023-)

  • Associate editor: Nutrition Journal (2022-)

  • Editorial board: BMC Geriatrics (2021-)

Academic societies: 

  • Nutrition Society Australia: Deputy Chair, Equity Diversity & Inclusion Working Group (National) (2022-)

  • Australian Association of Gerontology: Executive committee member (NSW) (2021-)                                                                                         

 

My Research Supervision

  • Project: Identifying culturally appropriate and feasible strategies to improve hospital food service in older inpatients from racial and ethnic minority groups (primary supervisor)

  • Project: A systematic review of diet, nutrition, and medication use among centenarians around the world (primary supervisor; completed)

  • Project: Prevalence and Risk Factors of Drug-Related Hospital Readmissions in Older Adults: A Systematic Review (co-supervisor)

  • PhD project: Strategies to improve incentives for responsible research practices among health and medical researchers at Australia’s Group of Eight universities (co-supervisor; University of Sydney)

My Teaching

My teaching interest includes nutritional epidemiology, ageing health, and health policy.
I have taught and coordinated units/courses in nutritional epidemiology, research methods, ageing and health, introduction to public health, and history of public health. 

Current teaching (course convenor): Program evaluation (PHCM 2009); Capstone (PHCM 3003)