Dr Amanda Machell is a Research Fellow in Public Health, who conducts research focussed on child health and development. Dr Machell currently manages an NHMRC funded project focussed on the co-creation of a strategy to improve ear and hearing health service delivery and access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living in remote South Australia. Previously, she was project manager for an NHMRC funded project focused on how children’s daily activity patterns (e.g. watching television and playing sport) and diet differ between in-school and summer holiday periods and how these differences may affect their health and fitness.

Dr Machell is also interested in anaphylaxis prevention and management in schools and is a member of the National Allergy Centre of Excellence Consumer Engagement Register and the National Allergy Centre of Excellence Oral Immunotherapy Interest Group. 

Dr Machell is an active member of the Australian Health Promotion Association and Healthy Development Adelaide. Her research has featured on television and radio news programs and in The Conversation.

Dr Amanda Machell is a member of: 

• Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
• Healthy Development Adelaide
• Australian Health Promotion Association
• National Allergy Centre of Excellence Consumer Engagement Register
• National Allergy Centre of Excellence Oral Immunotherapy Interest Group

Honours (Physiotherapy/Health Sciences/Clinical Exercise Physiology) Supervisions

Physical activity measurement (1)

Summer holiday health deficits (2)

Smartphone health app abandonment (1)