Dr Evan Williams is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Newcastle who studies how what we eat affects how our bodies fight illness. A member of the Hunter Medical Research Institute’s Immune Health Research Program, he and his team’s work focuses on how nutrition and metabolism shape our immune system—especially in people with lung conditions like asthma.

Dr Williams is particularly interested in how obesity and poor diets can make respiratory illnesses worse, and how changes in the body’s metabolism, like those caused by diet or hormones, can affect inflammation and the way we respond to infections. His goal is to help improve treatments and health outcomes by understanding the links between food, metabolism, and immunity.

He has a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry and has been involved in medical research for over a decade, contributing to studies that aim to turn scientific discoveries into real-world health solutions.