Professor Lyndall Strazdins

Professor Lyndall Strazdins’ research centres on work, family and health, with a focus on time as a social determinant of health. Lack of time is the most common reason for not eating healthy food or being active and her work shows why time is a problem, and for whom. Most recently, she has been using new methods to reveal the health harms of long work hours, and how this drives social and gender inequality.

Professor Strazdins has served as an expert scientific adviser for government boards and panels nationally and internationally and was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship Seal of Excellence. Her papers have been ranked among the Top 5 in their year in her field.

Professor Strazdins is currently a Professor at the National Centre of Epidemiology and Population Health. She is also leading the ANU Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy which will be launched in 2025.