Melanie Ann Wakefield AO FASSA is an Australian psychologist and behavioural researcher at the Cancer Council of Victoria.
She has worked extensively on cancer prevention including tobacco control, through the introduction of plain-paper packaging.
Wakefield has a BA, GradDip in applied psychology, (1981)[1] MA and PhD (1994)[2] from the University of Adelaide.
[6] Wakefield was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2011.
[3] She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to medical research in the fields of population health and cancer prevention, and as a mentor".