Jennie Brand-Miller

Professor Jennie Brand-Miller PhD, FAIFST, (born 1952) holds a Personal Chair in Human Nutrition in the School of Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. She is best known for her research and publications on the glycemic index, and its role in human health. Her research interests focus on all aspects of carbohydrates—diet and diabetes, the glycemic index of foods, insulin resistance, lactose intolerance and oligosaccharides in infant nutrition.

She holds a special interest in evolutionary nutrition and the diet of Australian Aborigines. As a nutrition lecturer in 1981, Jennie was investigating Aboriginal bushfood when she came across the glycemic index, a nutritional concept devised by Dr. David J. Jenkins and colleagues from the University of Toronto. The glycemic index has since changed the way the world thinks about food, nutrition and dieting.

Jennie has played a major role in educating the community on the glycemic index. Her books about the glycemic index, The New Glucose Revolution, are international best-sellers with more than 2 million in sales since 1996. The most recent title in the series, The Low GI Diet, was published in September 2004. She has published 16 books and 200 journal articles.

She received a Clunies Ross Medal for Science and Technology in 2003 and the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Award of Merit in 2004. Jennie is Chair of GI Ltd.