Associate Professor Heather Yeatman

Complementary Medicines Evaluation Committee (CMEC) - membership profile

BSc (Adelaide), DipEd (Adelaide), GDipND (Flinders), MPH (Sydney), DrPH (Wollongong)

Associate Professor Yeatman is a continuing member of the Complementary Medicines Evaluation Committee. Her background is in public health, food and nutrition policy and consumer issues related to food and medicines. She is in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Wollongong. She coordinates the postgraduate program in Public Health and teaches in the areas of health promotion and public health nutrition. Prior to joining the University she was with the South Australian Health Commission in the areas of health promotion and health policy.

Associate Professor Yeatman holds a number of positions on national and state committees related to complementary medicines. She was a Board member of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) agency. She is a member of the Food Standards Sector Board of Standards Australia, the Tick criteria working group of the National Heart Foundation and the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy Advisory committee and is involved with the Illawarra Food Fairness Forum. Associate Professor Yeatman is particularly interested in the areas of consumer understanding of information on labels, both medicines and food labels, and the role that public consultation can play in improving the regulation of food and drugs to ensure better public health outcomes.