Natalie Walker (academic)

Natalia Walker
AwardsFellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Academic background
Alma materPukerua Bay School, Kāpiti College, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Otago, Wellington, University of Auckland
Thesis
Doctoral advisorStephen MacMahon, Anthony Rodgers
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland

Natalie K. Walker is a New Zealand-born academic and is the Director of the Flinders Clinical Trials Platform at Flinders University in Adelaide in Australia. The Platform supports trial research across the entirety of Flinders University. Walker joined Flinders University in March 2025. Prior to this, she was a Professor of Social and Community Health at the University of Auckland in Auckland in New Zealand, specialising in the reduction of harm from non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. Walker has an interest in smoking cessation but also researches on alcohol, cannabis and sugar.