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 aims to use particpatory research methods to reduce power imbalances between researchers and participants and improve the utility of research outcomes. 

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. 

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 influence policy change to improve the healthfulness, equity and environmental sustainability of food policies.