About Amelia McNew, PhD
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I'm Amelia McNew, PhD. I'm a nutrition scientist, academic editor, educator, and writer. I hold bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in nutrition science, with graduate coursework spanning biochemistry, human biology, neuroscience, epidemiology, healthcare ethics, and public health. My work examines the ethics of how nutrition and wellness information reaches the public, who it is applied to, and where it shifts from science to supposition.
I have accumulated over 20 years of editorial experience. For academic editing and research consulting, I specialize in literature reviews and narrative support for qualitative methodologies, results, and discussion sections across health sciences, social sciences, and education. I work with qualitative researchers, particularly those using narrative inquiry and reflexive thematic analysis. I also support grant writing and help quantitative researchers build literature reviews and needs statements that establish both the scholarly gap and the real-world urgency their work addresses.
My work centers on the ethics of health communication to laypersons: how wellness texts, nutrition media, and food-as-medicine narratives speak to people about their bodies, their conditions, and their futures.
My current research includes critical analysis of wellness texts and nutrition research, published at Ethics in Nutrition.
For readers outside academia, I write at Factual Wellness, a fiscally sponsored, open access project that breaks down pop-culture wellness myths and reviews nutrition studies in accessible language.