Rate My Professor Jordan Stanford

Dr Jordan Stanford is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and an early career researcher serving as a Post Doctorate Fellow in the School of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She obtained her Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours Class I) in 2016 and her PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics in 2023, both from the University of Wollongong. Her research investigates diet-based therapies and the gastrointestinal microbiome to achieve favourable gut microbiome and metabolomic changes and enhance clinical outcomes for individuals with chronic kidney disease. Since completing her PhD, Dr Stanford has broadened her research to emphasise precision and personalised nutrition, examining the interplay between diet and multi-omic technologies, such as the dietary metabolome. Previously, she worked as a Dietitian at Liverpool Hospital from 2017 to 2018.

Dr Stanford's academic interests include dietary assessment, dietary biomarkers, gut health, gut microbiome, metabolomics, nutrition and dietetics, and precision and personalised nutrition. Her fields of research are nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition (70%) and nutritional science (30%). She has contributed to 43 journal articles, one book chapter, and six conference papers. Key publications include 'High-Diversity Plant-Based Diet and Gut Microbiome, Plasma Metabolome, and Symptoms in Adults with CKD' (Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2025), 'Strengthening the reporting of diet item details in feeding studies measuring the dietary metabolome: The DID-METAB core outcome set statement' (European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2025), 'Dietary metabolome profiles of a Healthy Australian Diet versus a Typical Australian Diet: protocol for a randomised cross-over feeding study in Australian adults' (BMJ Open, 2023), 'Short-term skin carotenoid changes following consumption of a typical Australian diet versus a healthy Australian diet' (Proceedings of The Nutrition Society, 2024), and 'Association between dietary intake of foods estimated to contain live microbes and health indicators in Australian adults: An exploratory analysis' (Nutrition Research, 2026). These works inform dietary strategies for cardiometabolic and kidney health.