Gina Absalom is an accredited practising dietitian and lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Faculty of Health, Charles Darwin University. Gina holds a Bachelor of Food and Nutrition Sciences (Honours), Graduate Certificate of Public Health and Master of Dietetics. Her research interests include community-informed approaches to chronic disease prevention and management and the impact of policies on health and equity. Gina's research uses participatory methods, such as participatory action research and systems thinking methodology.

Before joining Charles Darwin University, Gina worked as a public health dietitian in Central Australia and Far North NSW. Her dietetic roles focussed on working with remote Aboriginal communities, delivering individualised nutrition care and community education. During this time, she was involved in several research projects, including investigating the use of an app to co-design strategies to promote healthy remote store food environments and exploring barriers and enablers to chronic disease self-management in women living in remote communities. Alongside this, her previous research has focussed on the dietetic model of care for women with gestational diabetes. This work has been published in BMC Health Services Research and Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics.

Gina is currently involved in several projects at Charles Darwin University. This includes leading a research project exploring the food experiences of university students, with a focus on identifying effective strategies to reduce food insecurity and improve the healthfulness of food environments in regional areas. She is also a co-investigator on a project exploring stakeholder perspectives on delivering a hybrid dietetics course on rural and remote practice. In addition to this, her PhD project will focus on the use of systems thinking approaches to elicit policy change to improve the healthfulness, equity and environmental sustainability of food policies.