Jennie Brand-Miller

Jennie Brand-Miller

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Professor Jennie Brand-Miller holds a Personal Chair in Human Nutrition in the Human Nutrition Unit, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney, Australia.
She is recognised for her work on carbohydrates and diabetes, particularly the glycemic index of foods.
She received the 2003 Clunies Ross Medal for contributions to science and technology in Australia and the 2004 Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Award of Merit.

Her books under the series title The New Glucose Revolution have sold over 3.5 million copies world wide and appeared in 12 languages.
She has analysed and compiled tables of composition of over 800 Australian Aboriginal bush foods - the largest wild food database in the world - and has a strong interest in the diet of our ancestors ? ?paleolithic nutrition?. S
he is the immediate-past President of the Nutrition Society of Australia, Chair of the Nutrition Committee of the Australian Academy of Science, the Director of Sydney University Glycemic Index Research Service (SUGiRS, a GI testing service for the food industry) and is Chair of the Board of Directors of a non-profit company (Glycemic Index Limited), which administers a food symbol program for consumers in collaboration with Diabetes Australia and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Jennie is the proud recipient of two Nucleus? bionic ears. She has taught nutrition at graduate and undergraduate levels for 30 years.