Emma Tonkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Tonkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Tonkin |
| SIGNATURE | TONKIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9941-4251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The relative validity of the updated Menzies Remote Short-Item Dietary Assessment Tool (MRSDAT) for use with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and adults
Updates to the MRSDAT have resulted in dietary quality index scores highly comparable to those derived from 24-h recalls. The MRSDAT has the practical advantages of speed and convenience for research purposes, and the built-in instant dietary feedback feature has application to service delivery settings given the robust results demonstrated in this validation study
Diet quality, food security and traditional food intake of pregnant and breastfeeding women, and children 6 months to 5 years, living in eight remote Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander c…
This work is part of a trial that has been registered with Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12621000640808. Trial registration date: 28/05/2021
Inquiry Into Chittleborough Et Al 2023 Article
Communities Setting the Direction for Their Right to Nutritious, Affordable Food
Despite long histories of traditional food security, Indigenous peoples globally are disproportionately exposed to food insecurity. Addressing this imbalance must be a partnership led by Indigenous peoples in accordance with the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We report the co-design process and resulting design of a food security research project in remote Australia and examine how the co-design process considered Indigenous …
Testing delay in an environment of low Covid-19 prevalence
South Australia has to date (October 2021) been highly successful in maintaining an aggressive suppression strategy for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, continued success of this strategy is dependent on ongoing testing by people with symptoms of COVID-19 to identify, trace and quarantine emergent cases as soon as possible. This study sought to explore community members’ decisions about having COVID-19 testing in an environment o…
The health implications of distrust in the food system
The DOTIFS scale is a comprehensive, sociologically- and empirically- informed assessment of consumer trust in food systems that can be self-administered online to large populations and used to measure changes in consumer trust over time. The differences in health-related behaviours between individuals with varying levels of trust warrant further investigation
Developing and Maintaining Public Trust During and Post-Covid-19
Trust in public health officials and the information they provide is essential for the public uptake of preventative strategies to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. This paper discusses how a model for developing and maintaining trust in public health officials during food safety incidents and scandals might be applied to pandemic management. The model identifies ten strategies to be considered, including: transparency; development of protocol…
Expectations and everyday opportunities for building trust in the food system
Purpose Consumers’ trust in food systems is essential to their functioning and to consumers’ well-being. However, the literature exploring how food safety incidents impact consumer trust is theoretically underdeveloped. This study explores the relationship between consumers’ expectations of the food system and its actors (regulators, food industry and the media) and how these influence trust-related judgements that consumers make during a food sa…
How the Media Places Responsibility for the Covid-19 Pandemic—An Australian Media Analysis
Global pandemics are likely to increase in frequency and severity, and media communication of key messages represents an important mediator of the behavior of individuals in response to public health countermeasures. Where the media places responsibility during a pandemic is therefore important to study as blame is commonly used as a tool to influence public behavior but can also lead to the subjective persecution of groups. The aim of this paper…
Dietary Protein Intake, Breast Feeding and Growth in Human Milk Fed Preterm Infants
Protein intakes of preterm infants are frequently below recommendations, but few studies report accurate intakes due to the difficulty of analysing human milk clinically. This observational analysis from a randomised trial of infants born
Obtaining consumer perspectives using a citizens’ jury
Consumers in this study engaged with the topical issue of CoOL and provided their opinions. Overall, consumers do not think that the current CoOL system in Australia enables consumers to make informed choices. Recommendations for changes, including increasing the size of the label and the label's font, and standardising its position, were made
The process of making trust related judgements through interaction with food labelling
Consumer trust in the Australian food system – The everyday erosive impact of food labelling
Managing uncertainty about food risks – Consumer use of food labelling
Estimating the Dietary Intake of Breastfeeding Preterm Infants
Using the prescribed feed volume to estimate total intake has limited clinical utility for the individual infant, however the relatively small bias means that it may be useful within a population or for comparison between groups in which population means are compared. There was a large variation in volume taken during a breastfeed across all gestational and postmenstrual ages
How the Media Places Responsibility for the Covid-19 Pandemic—An Australian Media Analysis
Global pandemics are likely to increase in frequency and severity, and media communication of key messages represents an important mediator of the behavior of individuals in response to public health countermeasures. Where the media places responsibility during a pandemic is therefore important to study as blame is commonly used as a tool to influence public behavior but can also lead to the subjective persecution of groups. The aim of this paper…
The process of making trust related judgements through interaction with food labelling
Managing uncertainty about food risks – Consumer use of food labelling
Consumer trust in the Australian food system – The everyday erosive impact of food labelling
Estimating the Dietary Intake of Breastfeeding Preterm Infants
Using the prescribed feed volume to estimate total intake has limited clinical utility for the individual infant, however the relatively small bias means that it may be useful within a population or for comparison between groups in which population means are compared. There was a large variation in volume taken during a breastfeed across all gestational and postmenstrual ages
Obtaining consumer perspectives using a citizens’ jury
Consumers in this study engaged with the topical issue of CoOL and provided their opinions. Overall, consumers do not think that the current CoOL system in Australia enables consumers to make informed choices. Recommendations for changes, including increasing the size of the label and the label's font, and standardising its position, were made
The process of making trust related judgements through interaction with food labelling
Consumer trust in the Australian food system – The everyday erosive impact of food labelling
Managing uncertainty about food risks – Consumer use of food labelling
Dietary Protein Intake, Breast Feeding and Growth in Human Milk Fed Preterm Infants
Protein intakes of preterm infants are frequently below recommendations, but few studies report accurate intakes due to the difficulty of analysing human milk clinically. This observational analysis from a randomised trial of infants born
Developing and Maintaining Public Trust During and Post-Covid-19
Trust in public health officials and the information they provide is essential for the public uptake of preventative strategies to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. This paper discusses how a model for developing and maintaining trust in public health officials during food safety incidents and scandals might be applied to pandemic management. The model identifies ten strategies to be considered, including: transparency; development of protocol…
Expectations and everyday opportunities for building trust in the food system
Purpose Consumers’ trust in food systems is essential to their functioning and to consumers’ well-being. However, the literature exploring how food safety incidents impact consumer trust is theoretically underdeveloped. This study explores the relationship between consumers’ expectations of the food system and its actors (regulators, food industry and the media) and how these influence trust-related judgements that consumers make during a food sa…
How the Media Places Responsibility for the Covid-19 Pandemic—An Australian Media Analysis
Global pandemics are likely to increase in frequency and severity, and media communication of key messages represents an important mediator of the behavior of individuals in response to public health countermeasures. Where the media places responsibility during a pandemic is therefore important to study as blame is commonly used as a tool to influence public behavior but can also lead to the subjective persecution of groups. The aim of this paper…
The health implications of distrust in the food system
The DOTIFS scale is a comprehensive, sociologically- and empirically- informed assessment of consumer trust in food systems that can be self-administered online to large populations and used to measure changes in consumer trust over time. The differences in health-related behaviours between individuals with varying levels of trust warrant further investigation
Testing delay in an environment of low Covid-19 prevalence
South Australia has to date (October 2021) been highly successful in maintaining an aggressive suppression strategy for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, continued success of this strategy is dependent on ongoing testing by people with symptoms of COVID-19 to identify, trace and quarantine emergent cases as soon as possible. This study sought to explore community members’ decisions about having COVID-19 testing in an environment o…
Communities Setting the Direction for Their Right to Nutritious, Affordable Food
Despite long histories of traditional food security, Indigenous peoples globally are disproportionately exposed to food insecurity. Addressing this imbalance must be a partnership led by Indigenous peoples in accordance with the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We report the co-design process and resulting design of a food security research project in remote Australia and examine how the co-design process considered Indigenous …
Inquiry Into Chittleborough Et Al 2023 Article
The relative validity of the updated Menzies Remote Short-Item Dietary Assessment Tool (MRSDAT) for use with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and adults
Updates to the MRSDAT have resulted in dietary quality index scores highly comparable to those derived from 24-h recalls. The MRSDAT has the practical advantages of speed and convenience for research purposes, and the built-in instant dietary feedback feature has application to service delivery settings given the robust results demonstrated in this validation study
Diet quality, food security and traditional food intake of pregnant and breastfeeding women, and children 6 months to 5 years, living in eight remote Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander c…
This work is part of a trial that has been registered with Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12621000640808. Trial registration date: 28/05/2021
Medicine (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Marketing (7 works) · Food security (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Breastfeeding (4 works)