Debbie Palmer
Professor
University of Western Australia
Australia
Biography
Dr Debbie Palmer (BSc, BND, PhD) is head of the Childhood Allergy and Immunology Research Team at the University of Western Australia. She is undertaking research in the area of nutritional strategies for allergy prevention. Her current research activities include conducting randomised controlled trials focusing on nutritional interventions for the prevention of allergic disease, including 1) maternal fish oil supplementation during pregnancy, 2) optimal exposure of egg protein through breast milk to infants during lactation 3) optimal timing of egg introduction into the solid food diet of infants and 4) vitamin D oral supplementation to infants.
Research Interest
Childhood Allergy and Immunology