Public seminar - Physical Activity and Nutrition
These public seminars hosted by the University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition presents Associate Professor Anouk Geelen and Associate Professor Jeanne de Vries from Wageningen University, Netherlands.
Variation on changeability of dietary patterns
Associate Professor Anouk Geelen
Wageningen University, Netherlands
Anouk Geelen is nutritionist and epidemiologist at the Division of Human Nutrition of Wageningen University. Her main research interest focusses on methodologies to collect dietary intake data of high quality. Knowing the possibilities and limitations of traditional methods, she performs validation studies using up-to-date measurement error modelling. Besides that, she recognizes the needs for innovative technological developments in dietary assessment methodology and is involved in initiatives to bring this field further while keeping the quality aspect in mind. She explores the potential of technical applications to support self-monitoring by individuals with respect to impact for public health (behavior change) and possibilities for research (data collection and analysis).
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Associate Professor Jeanne de Vries
Wageningen University, Netherlands
Jeanne de Vries is assistant professor dietary assessment and nutrition behaviour during the lifecycle and in primary care and head of the dietician group at the Division of Human Nutrition of Wageningen University. Her research focuses on dietary assessment methodology, eating behaviour, and clinical nutrition. She is (co-)-author of around 100 original research papers of which a major number in the field of dietary assessment in different age groups, including elderly, and infants and children. She supervises PhD and MSc students in the field of dietary assessment methodology, and improving dietary intake, nutritional status, and eating behaviour of different age and patient groups.
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