Marj Moodie

Biographic Data

ID	4003190
NAME	Marj Moodie
GIVEN NAMES	Marj
FAMILY NAME	Moodie
SIGNATURE	MOODIE M
AFFILIATIONS	Deakin University
ORCID	0000-0001-6890-5250
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	40
TOTAL CITATIONS	2
AUTHOR COUNT	40
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	1

Valuing Australian parent preferences for community-based nutrition and physical activity initiatives
Open AccessNicole Ward, Thao Thai et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2026
Parent engagement in community-based obesity prevention interventions (CBOPIs) enhances obesity prevention outcomes. Actions from CBOPIs may also have climate change-related impacts, but little is known about specific elements of CBOPIs that promote parental engagement, and whether parents prefer CBOPIs that aim to address obesity alone or obesity and climate change warrants further investigation. An unlabelled 12-choice task discrete choice expe…
Including climate change in community-based obesity prevention interventions
Open AccessNicole Ward, Kim Robinson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025
CBOPIs that use double-duty actions to intentionally target obesity prevention and climate change action may play an important role in addressing two critical public health issues at the community level. Whilst CBOPI funders are supportive of double-duty actions, modifications from strategy and partnerships may be required to realise the successful implementation
How supermarket retailers value business outcomes of healthy food retail strategies
Open AccessMoosa Alsubhi, Miranda R Blake et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024
Background: Supermarkets are businesses, and any voluntary changes to increase the healthiness of their food offerings must align with retailers' commercial needs. Business outcomes of healthy food retail strategies are important non-health factors that may influence retailers' decisions to implement these strategies. Although there is growing evidence on the significance of various business outcomes, such as net profit and customer satisfaction,…
Exploring the economics of public health intervention scale-up
Open AccessVicki Brown, Huong Tran et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022
The findings from this study provide important information relevant to decisions on progression to a Type III implementation trial, including budget allocation, and will inform modelled economic evaluation
The economic and health burden of stroke among younger adults in Australia from a societal perspective
Open AccessElise Tan, Lan Gao et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022
ACTRN12606000185561 , retrospectively registered
Sitting less and moving more for improved metabolic and brain health in type 2 diabetes
Open AccessChristian J Brakenridge, Paul A Gardiner et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022
ANZCTRN12618001159246
Barriers and facilitators to the introduction of import duties designed to prevent noncommunicable disease in Tonga
Open AccessColin Bell, Catherine Latu et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2021
BACKGROUND: In Tonga, import duties were lowered on tinned fish and seafood in 2013 and raised on soft drinks, dripping and other animal fats. Additional import duties were applied to soft drinks and dripping and other fats in 2016 and duties were also applied to high fat meats, mutton flaps and turkey tails. The objective of this study was to describe barriers to and facilitators of these import duties from a policy-maker perspective. METHODS: A…
Fruit and vegetable import duty reduction in Fiji to prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases
Open AccessColin Bell, Catherine Latu et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2020
Objective: To describe the development of Fiji’s fruit and vegetable fiscal policies between 2010 and 2014 and explore the impact they have had on import volumes. Design: Qualitative case study and in-depth analysis of policy process. Policy impact was assessed using publicly available import volume data and prices of food products. Setting: Fiji. Participants: Senior government policy makers, non-communicable disease officers from the Ministry o…
Protocol for an Economic Evaluation of the Quitlink Randomized Controlled Trial for Accessible Smoking Cessation Support for People With Severe Mental Illness
Open AccessRohan Sweeney, Marj Moodie et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019
Introduction: Smoking is a major cause of disease burden and reduced quality of life for people with severe mental illness (SMI). It places significant resource pressure on health systems and financial stress on smokers with SMI (SSMI). Telephone-based smoking cessation interventions have been shown to be cost effective in general populations. However, evidence suggests that SSMI are less likely to be referred to quitlines, and little is known ab…
Measuring subjective wellbeing in patients with heart disease
Open AccessLan Gao, Marj Moodie et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2019
The development and implementation of a new import duty on palm oil to reduce non-communicable disease in Fiji
Open AccessJeremaia Coriakula, Marj Moodie et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018
BACKGROUND: Non communicable diseases (NCD) place a significant health burden on Pacific Island countries including Fiji. Policy interventions to curb NCDs have been implemented in Fiji including a 32% increase in the import duty on palm oil. This study aims to analyse the development and implementation of the increase in palm oil import duty in Fiji. Also, to document the policy process, identify barriers and facilitators during implementation a…
Health-Promoting Food Pricing Policies and Decision-Making in Very Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Stores in Australia
Open AccessMegan Ferguson, Kerin O’dea et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in remote communities in Australia experience a disproportionate burden of diet-related chronic disease. This occurs in an environment where the cost of store-purchased food is high and cash incomes are low, factors that affect both food insecurity and health outcomes. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storeowners and the retailers who work with them implement local policies with the aim of …
Is there an association between early weight status and utility-based health-related quality of life in young children
Open AccessJoo Tan, Victoria Brown et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2018
Factors affecting evidence-use in food policy-making processes in health and agriculture in Fiji
Open AccessGade Waqa, Colin Bell et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017
The use of evidence in policy-making will only become a reality in Fiji if it is a formalized part of the government's policy-making systems. A systems approach to food-related policy-making and implementation may achieve this by helping Ministries manage the complex and dynamic nature of food-related policy-making in Fiji
Obesity-related health impacts of fuel excise taxation- an evidence review and cost-effectiveness study
Open AccessVicki Brown, Marj Moodie et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017
Exploratory analysis suggests that an intervention to increase fuel excise taxation may deliver obesity and physical activity related benefits. Whilst such an intervention has significant potential for cost-effectiveness, potential equity and acceptability impacts would need to be minimised. A better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a range of transport interventions is required in order to achieve more physically acti…
Knowledge-exchange in the Pacific
Open AccessPeter Kremer, Helen Mavoa et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017
This study empirically evaluated a knowledge-broking program that aimed to extend evidence-informed policy making skills and development of a suite of national policy briefs designed to increase the enactment of obesity-related policies. The findings failed to indicate reliable improvements in research utilization at either the individual or organizational level. Factors associated with fidelity and intervention dose as well as challenges related…
Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity
Open AccessSteven Allender, Lynne Millar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2016
Background : Community-based initiatives show promise for preventing childhood obesity. They are characterized by community leaders and members working together to address complex local drivers of energy balance. Objectives : To present a protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial in ten communities in the Great South Coast Region of Victoria, Australia to test whether it is possible to: (1) strengthen community action for childhood ob…
Scaling-up an efficacious school-based physical activity intervention
Open AccessChris Lonsdale, Taren Sanders et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12616000731493 ). Date of registration: June 3, 2016
Child and adolescent obesity
Open AccessTim Lobstein, Rachel Jackson-Leach et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015
Low health-related quality of life in school-aged children in Tonga, a lower-middle income country in the South Pacific
Open AccessSuni Petersen, Solveig Petersen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014
BACKGROUND: Ensuring a good life for all parts of the population, including children, is high on the public health agenda in most countries around the world. Information about children's perception of their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and its socio-demographic distribution is, however, limited and almost exclusively reliant on data from Western higher income countries. OBJECTIVES: To investigate HRQoL in schoolchildren in Tonga, a lowe…
Wider impacts of a 10-week community cooking skills program - Jamie’s Ministry of Food, Australia
Open AccessJessica Herbert, Anna Flego et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014
Australian and New Zealand Trial registration number: ACTRN12611001209987
Parental encouragement of healthy behaviors
Open AccessLaura Nicholls, Andrew J Lewis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014
Findings suggest that parental encouragement of healthy behavior is associated with increased HRQoL scores for adolescents. Whilst more research is needed to validate the significant interaction effect, main effects suggest that parental encouragement of healthy behavior is an important factor in adolescent wellbeing and should be considered when developing prevention and clinical interventions for obesity
Cost-effectiveness of reducing salt intake in the Pacific Islands
Open AccessJacqui Webster, Wendy Snowdon et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014
Salt reduction is a global priority and all Member States of the World Health Organization have agreed on a target to reduce salt intake by 30% by 2025, as part of the global action plan to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases. The study described by this protocol will be the first to provide a robust assessment of salt intake and the impact of salt reduction interventions in the Pacific Islands. As such, it will inform the development …
The effect of gender and age on the association between weight status and health-related quality of life in Australian adolescents
Open AccessKristy A Bolton, Kristy Bolton et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014
Australian Clinical Trials Registration Number 12609000892213
Methods for the evaluation of the Jamie Oliver Ministry of Food program,Australia
Open AccessAnna Flego, Jessica Herbert et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013
Australian and New Zealand Trial registration number: ACTRN12611001209987