Jennie Brand-Miller

Jennie Brand-Miller
AO FAA
Born1952 (age 73–74)
SpouseDr John James Miller (1)
Awards
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2018)
  • Officer of the Order of Australia (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsNutrition
WorkplacesUniversity of Sydney (1978–present)
Websitesydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/jennie-brandmiller.html

Janette Cecile Brand-Miller AO FAA (born 1952), also known as Jennie Brand-Miller, Janette Cecile Brand and GI Jennie, is an Australian academic who holds a chair in human nutrition in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney.[1] She is best known for her research and publications on the glycemic index, a term originated by David J. Jenkins of the University of Toronto, and its role in human health.[2][3][1][4][5][6]

Early life and education

Brand-Miller was born in 1952. She studied food science and technology before completing a doctorate (PhD) in nutrition at the University of New South Wales. Her early published research included a 1977 trial, reported in the Medical Journal of Australia, of lactose-hydrolysed milk in Aboriginal Australian children, examining lactose intolerance.[3][7]

Research

Brand-Miller's research focused on carbohydrates and the glycaemic index (GI) of foods, a ranking of carbohydrate-containing foods according to their effect on blood-glucose levels. Her research contributed to the development and application of standardised methods for measuring the glycaemic index of foods, as well as glycaemic index databases and an international glycaemic index testing service used in nutrition research and food regulation. Her work also examined the role of the glycaemic index in pregnancy, the composition of traditional Aboriginal foods, and human variation in the salivary amylase gene AMY1. She also co-founded a food-labelling program that displays a certified low-GI symbol on qualifying products.[7][8]

Books

Brand-Miller is a co-author, with dietitian Kaye Foster-Powell and others, of the ''New Glucose Revolution'' series of consumer books on low-GI eating, which helped popularise the concept of the glycemic index. The books draw on research carried out in her University of Sydney laboratory and cover topics including diabetes management, weight loss, and cooking.[7]

Personal Life

Brand-Miller experienced progressive hearing loss beginning in her teens, wore hearing aids from her twenties, and became profoundly deaf in one ear.[9]She received a cochlear implant and later became a bilateral cochlear-implant recipient, and has been an advocate for people with hearing impairment and disability.[7]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Professor Jennie Brand-Miller | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Taking the sweet with the sour". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 April 2003. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  3. 1 2 Brand, Janette C.; Miller, John J.; Vorbach, E. Athol; Edwards, Ronald A. (November 1977). "A Trial of Lactose Hydrolysed Milk in Australian Aboriginal Children". Medical Journal of Australia. 2 (SP4): 10–13. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb107779.x. ISSN 0025-729X. PMID 347232.
  4. ↑ Miller, John James (1989). Relationship of infantile colic to breath hydrogen and lactose malabsorption (Thesis thesis). UNSW Sydney. hdl:1959.4/67697.
  5. ↑ Gardiner, Andrew (26 March 2024). "Big Sugar, Big Pharma: Sydney University compromised by academic research breach". Michael West. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  6. ↑ Miller, John James (1989); pp. iii-v in "Acknowledgements" in University of NSW PhD Dissertation "Relationship of infantile colic to breath hydrogen and lactose malabsorption"; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/publication/7fa38e73-2271-43dd-955e-8c253b0262a1/full
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jennie Brand-Miller". The Conversation. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "Jennie Brand-Miller | Australian Academy of Science". science.org.au. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  9. 1 2 Morgan, Branwen (13 June 2011), "Nutritionist recognised for pioneering work", ABC News in Science, ABC, retrieved 16 December 2017
  10. ↑ "News and events".
  11. ↑ "Queen's Birthday 2022 Honours - the full list". Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment Co. 12 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
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