Master of Nutrition and Population Health, Deakin University
Malo is a dietician and health advocate empowering Tuvaluans to adopt positive lifestyle habits for public health and wellbeing.
For four years, she worked in a local hospital setting as a Dietician for Tuvalu’s Ministry of Health, Social Welfare and Gender Affairs. With a focus on clinical and food service to prevent and manage non-communicable disease (NCD), Malo worked holistically with healthcare colleagues to improve patient outcomes through dietary management and wellbeing intervention. In this role, she also contributed to public outreach programs that she believes are vital to the uptake of lifestyle-related disease prevention strategies in local communities.
Malo is eager to foster collaboration and apply her knowledge on effective interventions and population approaches to combat the rise of NCDs in Tuvalu and the Pacific. She holds a Bachelor of Dietetics and Nutrition from Fiji National University.
