Rebecca Orr

Rebecca Orr is a PhD student and Associate Research Fellow at the Food & Mood Centre. She holds a Bachelor of Health Science (Psychology and Nutrition) and a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours). Her PhD sits at the intersection of lifestyle psychiatry and epidemiology, examining how modifiable lifestyle behaviours such as diet, physical activity, sleep, and smoking contribute to the development and prevention of common mental disorders, including depression and anxiety, in the UK Biobank.

Rebecca is the Project Coordinator of the Global burden of disease Lifestyle And mental Disorders (GLAD) project, which aims to incorporate lifestyle factors and mental illness as risk–outcome pairs in the Global Burden of Disease Study. She also works as a Research Assistant on the Bugs and Bumps RCT led by Dr Samantha Dawson, reflecting her strong interest in the design and coordination of clinical trials. In addition, Rebecca is assisting Associate Professor Wolfgang Marx in coordinating the inaugural Australian Lifestyle Psychiatry Symposium (ALPS), bringing together researchers to advance the field of lifestyle psychiatry.