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Dr Juliana Chen

APD

Senior Lecturer in Dietetics
Discipline of Nutrition and Dietetics
Sydney Nursing School
Faculty of Medicine and Health

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+61 2 8627 0843

Email

juliana.chen@sydney.edu.au

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Member of the Charles Perkins Centre

Biographical details

Dr Juliana Chen is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (Dietitians Australia). Juliana is a senior lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Sydney. Juliana's dietetics health services research, which commenced through her PhD, has driven innovation in the delivery of virtual patient dietetic care, particularly via implementation of mobile health apps in the nutrition care process. This research has informed population digital health policies by NSW Ministry of Health. Her expertise was also drawn upon for the Dietitians Australia’s position paper on telehealth, released in response to the COVID-19 pandemic impact on traditional in-person dietetic care. Juliana also is nutrition lead of the AU-ARROW multidomain lifestyle intervention to reduce dementia risk (part of the World‐wide FINGERS network), where she has combined her dietetics and research excellence to ensure translatable dietary intervention delivery through blended in-person and virtual care. Prior to joining the University of Sydney as a lecturer, Juliana worked as senior dietitian in Macquarie University’s Health Sciences Centre (MQ Health) and the Nepean-Blue Mountains Family Metabolic Health Service. There she delivered effective medical nutrition therapy for prevention and management of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, metabolic syndrome, amongst others.

Research interests

Juliana's research interests include:

Harnessing digital health, including telehealth, smartphone apps and artificial intelligence, to support patient self-monitoring of weight and self-management of chronic diseases. Juliana has led evaluation of patient outcomes in real-world weight management clinics.
Developing training and practice frameworks to support dietitians (both the current and future dietitian profession) in more effectively utilising health apps for remote counselling and more timely intervention modification for enhanced patient behaviour change.
Developing public health strategies that incorporate use of mobile health technologies to deliver interventions that improve the health and wellbeing of the population. For example, Juliana has worked on dietary assessment tools for young adults in Australia, as well as for children and families in the Pacific Islands including New Caledonia.
Developing valid and robust digital dietary assessment tools for integration into existing health services to enhance nutrition therapy.
Nutrition interventions to improve cognitive outcomes of older Australians. Juliana leads and oversees the dietary intervention arm of the multidomain AU-ARROW intervention aimed at reducing dementia risk through changing modifiable lifestyle risks.

Associations

Dietitians Australia

Themes

Chronic disease and ageing, Health care practice

Keywords

Dementia, Diet, Health services and management, Nutrition and metabolism, Obesity & overweight

Approaches

Counselling & Support, Translational Research, Treatment/Intervention

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Optimising the patient-centredness of care delivered to people receiving home enteral tube feeding	Andriana KORAI

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Journals

Peralta, L., Forsyth, R., Lapi, N., Amon, K., Metsan, P., Wattelez, G., Chen, J., Galy, O., Caillaud, C. (2025). Health literacy of adolescents’ responses to a workshop focusing on food, nutrition, climate change and digital technology solutions in Oceania: a multi-site pilot study in Vanuatu. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 648. [More Information]
Ang, S., Lim, S., Dan, Y., Chan, Y., Yap, Q., Chen, J. (2024). Clinical Service Incorporating Mobile Technology on Weight Loss in Patients With Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: A Translation From Research Trial. Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, 7(3). [More Information]
Wijeweera, C., Muhfaza, U., Lord, R., Petocz, P., Chen, J., Preda, V. (2024). Socioeconomic status and the effect of prolonged pandemic confinement on anthropometric and glycaemic outcomes in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Primary Care Diabetes, 18(3), 308-318. [More Information]
Gardener, S., Fuller, S., Naismith, S., Baker, L., Kivipelto, M., Villemagne, V., Grieve, S., Yates, P., Rainey-Smith, S., Chen, J., Ireland, C., et al (2024). The AUstralian multidomain Approach to Reduce dementia Risk by prOtecting brain health With lifestyle intervention study (AU-ARROW): A study protocol for a single-blind, multi-site, randomized controlled trial. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 10(2). [More Information]
Yang, U., Harikrishna, A., Preda, V., Chen, J. (2023). Efficacy of multidisciplinary interventions in preventing metabolic syndrome and improving body composition in prostate cancer patients treated with androgen deprivation therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN: the European e-journal of clinical nutrition and metabolism, 58, 27-49. [More Information]
Castro, C., Rainey-Smith, S., Martins, R., Sohrabi, H., Costa, L., Dias, C., Chen, J., Hillebrandt, H., Gardener, S., Brown, B., et al (2023). Multi-Domain Interventions for Dementia Prevention–A Systematic Review. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 27(12), 1271-1280. [More Information]
Bertrand-Protat, S., Chen, J., Jonquoy, A., Frayon, S., Thu Win Tin, S., Ravuvu, A., Caillaud, C., Galy, O. (2023). Prevalence, causes and contexts of childhood overweight and obesity in the Pacific region: a scoping review. Open Research Europe, 3. [More Information]
David, D., Alamoodi, A., Albahri, O., Garfan, S., Albahri, A., Zaidan, B., Chen, J. (2023). Sign language mobile apps: a systematic review of current app evaluation progress and solution framework. Evolving Systems. [More Information]
Chen, J., Kaur, H., Jaques, J., Rock, Z., Dean, C., Lord, R., Preda, V. (2022). Association of clinically significant weight loss with number of patient visits and months of attendance at an Australian multidisciplinary weight management clinic. Clinical Obesity, 12(3). [More Information]
Taylor, J., Allman-Farinelli, M., Chen, J., Gauglitz, J., Hamideh, D., Jankowska, M., Johnson, A., Rangan, A., Spruijt-Metz, D., Yang, J., et al (2022). Perspective: A Framework for Addressing Dynamic Food Consumption Processes. Advances in Nutrition, 13(4), 992-1008. [More Information]
Thackrey, E., Chen, J., Martino, C., Preda, V. (2022). The effects of diet on weight and metabolic outcomes in patients with double diabetes: A systematic review. Nutrition, 94, 111536. [More Information]
Nguyen, V., Chen, J., Lord, R., Preda, V. (2022). The Impact of Multidisciplinary Weight Management on Body Weight and Body Mass Composition in Women with Breast Cancer Post-Adjuvant Chemotherapy: A Retrospective Chart Review. Oncology, 100(6), 344-353. [More Information]
Chen, J., Grech, A., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2022). Using Popular Foods Consumed to Inform Development of Digital Tools for Dietary Assessment and Monitoring. Nutrients, 14(22). [More Information]
Ang, S., Chen, J., Liew, J., Johal, J., Dan, Y., Allman-Farinelli, M., Lim, S. (2021). Efficacy of interventions that incorporate mobile apps in facilitating weight loss and health behavior change in the asian population: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(11), e28185. [More Information]
Alamoodi, A., Zaidan, B., Zaidan, A., Albahri, O., Chen, J., Chyad, M., Garfan, S., Aleesa, A. (2021). Machine learning-based imputation soft computing approach for large missing scale and non-reference data imputation. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 151, 111236. [More Information]
Alamoodi, A., Zaidan, B., Al-Masawa, M., Taresh, S., Noman, S., Ahmaro, I., Garfan, S., Chen, J., Ahmed, M., Zaidan, A., et al (2021). Multi-perspectives systematic review on the applications of sentiment analysis for vaccine hesitancy. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 139, 104957. [More Information]
Wellard-Cole, L., Davies, A., Chen, J., Jung, J., Bente, K., Kay, J., Watson, W., Hughes, C., Rangan, A., Yacef, K., Koprinska, I., Wong, N., Gemming, L., Bauman, A., Allman-Farinelli, M., et al (2021). The Contribution of Foods Prepared Outside the Home to the Diets of 18- to 30- Year-Old Australians: The MYMeals Study. Nutrients, 13(6), 1761. [More Information]
Chen, J., Bertrand, S., Galy, O., Raubenheimer, D., Allman-Farinelli, M., Caillaud, C. (2021). The design and development of a food composition database for an electronic tool to assess food intake in new caledonian families. Nutrients, 13(5), 1668. [More Information]
Kelly, J., Allman-Farinelli, M., Chen, J., Partridge, S., Collins, C., Rollo, M., Haslam, R., Campbell, K. (2020). Dietitians Australia position statement on telehealth. Nutrition and Dietetics, 77(4), 406-415. [More Information]
Allman-Farinelli, M., Chen, J., Chevance, G., Partridge, S., Gemming, L., Patrick, K., Godino, J. (2020). The efficacy of electronic health interventions targeting improved sleep for achieving prevention of weight gain in adolescents and young to middle-aged adults: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, 21(6), 1-17. [More Information]
Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2019). Impact of training and integration of apps into dietetic practice on dietitians' self-efficacy with using mobile health apps and patient satisfaction. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 7(3), 1-16. [More Information]
Wellard-Cole, L., Chen, J., Davies, A., Wong, A., Huynh, S., Rangan, A., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2019). Relative Validity of the Eat and Track (EaT) Smartphone App for Collection of Dietary Intake Data in 18-to-30-Year Olds. Nutrients, 11(3), 1-12. [More Information]
Chen, J., Berkman, W., Bardouh, M., Ng, C., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2019). The use of a food logging app in the naturalistic setting fails to provide accurate measurements of nutrients and poses usability challenges. Nutrition, 57, 208-216. [More Information]
Nour, M., Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2019). Young adults' engagement with a self-monitoring app for vegetable intake and the impact of social media and gamification: Feasibility study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 3(2), 1-20. [More Information]
Wellard-Cole, L., Potter, M., Jung, J., Chen, J., Kay, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2018). A Tool to Measure Young Adults' Food Intake: Design and Development of an Australian Database of Foods for the Eat and Track Smartphone App. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 6(11), 1-12. [More Information]
Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2018). Development and Validation of a Tool to Measure Dietitians' Self-Efficacy with Using Mobile Health Apps in Dietetic Practice. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 50(5), 468-475. [More Information]
Chen, J., Gemming, L., Hanning, R., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2018). Smartphone apps and the nutrition care process: Current perspectives and future considerations. Patient Education and Counseling, 101(4), 750-757. [More Information]
Chen, J., Lieffers, J., Bauman, A., Hanning, R., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2017). Designing Health Apps to Support Dietetic Professional Practice and Their Patients: Qualitative Results From an International Survey. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 5(3), 1-13. [More Information]
Chen, J., Lieffers, J., Bauman, A., Hanning, R., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2017). The use of smartphone health apps and other mobile health (mHealth) technologies in dietetic practice: a three country study. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 30, 439-452. [More Information]
Chen, J., Bauman, A., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2016). A Study to Determine the Most Popular Lifestyle Smartphone Applications and Willingness of the Public to Share Their Personal Data for Health Research. Telemedicine and e-Health, 22(8), 655-665. [More Information]
Nour, M., Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2016). Efficacy and External Validity of Electronic and Mobile Phone-Based Interventions Promoting Vegetable Intake in Young Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(4), 1-19. [More Information]
Nour, M., Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2015). Efficacy and External Validity of Electronic and Mobile Phone-Based Interventions Promoting Vegetable Intake in Young Adults: A Systematic Review Protocol. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 4(3), 1-7. [More Information]
Chen, J., Cade, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2015). The Most Popular Smartphone Apps for Weight Loss: A Quality Assessment. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 3(4), 1-17. [More Information]

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Kite, J., Chen, J., Zhao, J., Freeman, B., Allman-Farinelli, M., Li, M., Bellew, W. (2015). Mobile apps and health behaviour: A rapid evidence review. Sydney: Physical Activity Nutrition Obesity Research Group (PANORG).

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2025

Peralta, L., Forsyth, R., Lapi, N., Amon, K., Metsan, P., Wattelez, G., Chen, J., Galy, O., Caillaud, C. (2025). Health literacy of adolescents’ responses to a workshop focusing on food, nutrition, climate change and digital technology solutions in Oceania: a multi-site pilot study in Vanuatu. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 648. [More Information]

2024

Ang, S., Lim, S., Dan, Y., Chan, Y., Yap, Q., Chen, J. (2024). Clinical Service Incorporating Mobile Technology on Weight Loss in Patients With Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: A Translation From Research Trial. Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, 7(3). [More Information]
Wijeweera, C., Muhfaza, U., Lord, R., Petocz, P., Chen, J., Preda, V. (2024). Socioeconomic status and the effect of prolonged pandemic confinement on anthropometric and glycaemic outcomes in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Primary Care Diabetes, 18(3), 308-318. [More Information]
Gardener, S., Fuller, S., Naismith, S., Baker, L., Kivipelto, M., Villemagne, V., Grieve, S., Yates, P., Rainey-Smith, S., Chen, J., Ireland, C., et al (2024). The AUstralian multidomain Approach to Reduce dementia Risk by prOtecting brain health With lifestyle intervention study (AU-ARROW): A study protocol for a single-blind, multi-site, randomized controlled trial. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 10(2). [More Information]

2023

Yang, U., Harikrishna, A., Preda, V., Chen, J. (2023). Efficacy of multidisciplinary interventions in preventing metabolic syndrome and improving body composition in prostate cancer patients treated with androgen deprivation therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN: the European e-journal of clinical nutrition and metabolism, 58, 27-49. [More Information]
Castro, C., Rainey-Smith, S., Martins, R., Sohrabi, H., Costa, L., Dias, C., Chen, J., Hillebrandt, H., Gardener, S., Brown, B., et al (2023). Multi-Domain Interventions for Dementia Prevention–A Systematic Review. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 27(12), 1271-1280. [More Information]
Bertrand-Protat, S., Chen, J., Jonquoy, A., Frayon, S., Thu Win Tin, S., Ravuvu, A., Caillaud, C., Galy, O. (2023). Prevalence, causes and contexts of childhood overweight and obesity in the Pacific region: a scoping review. Open Research Europe, 3. [More Information]
David, D., Alamoodi, A., Albahri, O., Garfan, S., Albahri, A., Zaidan, B., Chen, J. (2023). Sign language mobile apps: a systematic review of current app evaluation progress and solution framework. Evolving Systems. [More Information]

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2022

Chen, J., Kaur, H., Jaques, J., Rock, Z., Dean, C., Lord, R., Preda, V. (2022). Association of clinically significant weight loss with number of patient visits and months of attendance at an Australian multidisciplinary weight management clinic. Clinical Obesity, 12(3). [More Information]
Taylor, J., Allman-Farinelli, M., Chen, J., Gauglitz, J., Hamideh, D., Jankowska, M., Johnson, A., Rangan, A., Spruijt-Metz, D., Yang, J., et al (2022). Perspective: A Framework for Addressing Dynamic Food Consumption Processes. Advances in Nutrition, 13(4), 992-1008. [More Information]
Thackrey, E., Chen, J., Martino, C., Preda, V. (2022). The effects of diet on weight and metabolic outcomes in patients with double diabetes: A systematic review. Nutrition, 94, 111536. [More Information]
Nguyen, V., Chen, J., Lord, R., Preda, V. (2022). The Impact of Multidisciplinary Weight Management on Body Weight and Body Mass Composition in Women with Breast Cancer Post-Adjuvant Chemotherapy: A Retrospective Chart Review. Oncology, 100(6), 344-353. [More Information]
Chen, J., Grech, A., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2022). Using Popular Foods Consumed to Inform Development of Digital Tools for Dietary Assessment and Monitoring. Nutrients, 14(22). [More Information]

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2021

Ang, S., Chen, J., Liew, J., Johal, J., Dan, Y., Allman-Farinelli, M., Lim, S. (2021). Efficacy of interventions that incorporate mobile apps in facilitating weight loss and health behavior change in the asian population: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(11), e28185. [More Information]
Alamoodi, A., Zaidan, B., Zaidan, A., Albahri, O., Chen, J., Chyad, M., Garfan, S., Aleesa, A. (2021). Machine learning-based imputation soft computing approach for large missing scale and non-reference data imputation. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 151, 111236. [More Information]
Alamoodi, A., Zaidan, B., Al-Masawa, M., Taresh, S., Noman, S., Ahmaro, I., Garfan, S., Chen, J., Ahmed, M., Zaidan, A., et al (2021). Multi-perspectives systematic review on the applications of sentiment analysis for vaccine hesitancy. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 139, 104957. [More Information]
Wellard-Cole, L., Davies, A., Chen, J., Jung, J., Bente, K., Kay, J., Watson, W., Hughes, C., Rangan, A., Yacef, K., Koprinska, I., Wong, N., Gemming, L., Bauman, A., Allman-Farinelli, M., et al (2021). The Contribution of Foods Prepared Outside the Home to the Diets of 18- to 30- Year-Old Australians: The MYMeals Study. Nutrients, 13(6), 1761. [More Information]
Chen, J., Bertrand, S., Galy, O., Raubenheimer, D., Allman-Farinelli, M., Caillaud, C. (2021). The design and development of a food composition database for an electronic tool to assess food intake in new caledonian families. Nutrients, 13(5), 1668. [More Information]

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2020

Kelly, J., Allman-Farinelli, M., Chen, J., Partridge, S., Collins, C., Rollo, M., Haslam, R., Campbell, K. (2020). Dietitians Australia position statement on telehealth. Nutrition and Dietetics, 77(4), 406-415. [More Information]
Allman-Farinelli, M., Chen, J., Chevance, G., Partridge, S., Gemming, L., Patrick, K., Godino, J. (2020). The efficacy of electronic health interventions targeting improved sleep for achieving prevention of weight gain in adolescents and young to middle-aged adults: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, 21(6), 1-17. [More Information]

2019

Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2019). Impact of training and integration of apps into dietetic practice on dietitians' self-efficacy with using mobile health apps and patient satisfaction. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 7(3), 1-16. [More Information]
Wellard-Cole, L., Chen, J., Davies, A., Wong, A., Huynh, S., Rangan, A., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2019). Relative Validity of the Eat and Track (EaT) Smartphone App for Collection of Dietary Intake Data in 18-to-30-Year Olds. Nutrients, 11(3), 1-12. [More Information]
Chen, J., Berkman, W., Bardouh, M., Ng, C., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2019). The use of a food logging app in the naturalistic setting fails to provide accurate measurements of nutrients and poses usability challenges. Nutrition, 57, 208-216. [More Information]
Nour, M., Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2019). Young adults' engagement with a self-monitoring app for vegetable intake and the impact of social media and gamification: Feasibility study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 3(2), 1-20. [More Information]

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2018

Wellard-Cole, L., Potter, M., Jung, J., Chen, J., Kay, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2018). A Tool to Measure Young Adults' Food Intake: Design and Development of an Australian Database of Foods for the Eat and Track Smartphone App. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 6(11), 1-12. [More Information]
Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2018). Development and Validation of a Tool to Measure Dietitians' Self-Efficacy with Using Mobile Health Apps in Dietetic Practice. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 50(5), 468-475. [More Information]
Chen, J., Gemming, L., Hanning, R., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2018). Smartphone apps and the nutrition care process: Current perspectives and future considerations. Patient Education and Counseling, 101(4), 750-757. [More Information]

2017

Chen, J., Lieffers, J., Bauman, A., Hanning, R., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2017). Designing Health Apps to Support Dietetic Professional Practice and Their Patients: Qualitative Results From an International Survey. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 5(3), 1-13. [More Information]
Chen, J., Lieffers, J., Bauman, A., Hanning, R., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2017). The use of smartphone health apps and other mobile health (mHealth) technologies in dietetic practice: a three country study. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 30, 439-452. [More Information]

2016

Chen, J., Bauman, A., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2016). A Study to Determine the Most Popular Lifestyle Smartphone Applications and Willingness of the Public to Share Their Personal Data for Health Research. Telemedicine and e-Health, 22(8), 655-665. [More Information]
Nour, M., Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2016). Efficacy and External Validity of Electronic and Mobile Phone-Based Interventions Promoting Vegetable Intake in Young Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(4), 1-19. [More Information]

2015

Nour, M., Chen, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2015). Efficacy and External Validity of Electronic and Mobile Phone-Based Interventions Promoting Vegetable Intake in Young Adults: A Systematic Review Protocol. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 4(3), 1-7. [More Information]
Kite, J., Chen, J., Zhao, J., Freeman, B., Allman-Farinelli, M., Li, M., Bellew, W. (2015). Mobile apps and health behaviour: A rapid evidence review. Sydney: Physical Activity Nutrition Obesity Research Group (PANORG).
Chen, J., Cade, J., Allman-Farinelli, M. (2015). The Most Popular Smartphone Apps for Weight Loss: A Quality Assessment. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 3(4), 1-17. [More Information]

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