Associate Professor Helen Vidgen PhD, APD, AFHEA is a public health leader with extensive experience in policy, practice, research, and education across government, civil society and higher education sectors. She is a global leader in the area of food literacy. Her definition and conceptualisation of the term is the most cited internationally and has advanced the concept in research, policy and practice across settings and sectors in low, middle and high income countries, including being adopted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. Vidgen's other research interests include the social dimensions of food and eating, public health nutrition policy, translation and implementation including planning, evaluation, workforce and capacity. She was the chief investigator of largest trial of a universal childhood obesity management program in her home state of Queensland Australia, wrote the evaluation framework for the State's largest chronic disease prevention program, and conducted Queensland's only published audits of the community and public health nutrition workforce. She enjoys the complexity of implementation. Helen's public health nutrition research is informed by her extensive practice and civil society experience.