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Janet Cade

Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health

"Our research-intensive group creates, advances and disseminates nutrition research to make an impact on population health. Our main areas of research are nutritional epidemiology, the role of diet in chronic disease aetiology, diet-gene interactions, the assessment of nutrition interventions, and the development of dietary assessment methods."

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Nutritional Epidemiology

We are a research-intensive group, led by Professor Janet Cade, which strives (both independently and collaboratively) to create, advance and disseminate nutrition research to make an impact on population health.

Research

into the relationship between diet and chronic disease
assessing the impact of nutrition interventions on diet, knowledge and attitude to food
into the best ways of measuring the diet of populations (e.g. children)
studying the diets of different populations (e.g. pregnant women)

Consultancy

research, including the formulation of key health messages from scientific findings
literature review service, including rapid reviews

Teaching

nutrition and public health modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
training in nutrition methods (e.g. dietary analysis)

Current research projects

Previous research projects

Interdisciplinary Centre in Obesity, Nutrition and Health (ICON-Health)

The Nutritional Epidemiology group is a founding member of the Centre, the development of which will capitalise on interdisciplinary excellence at Leeds linking nutrition, obesity and health.

The Centre will build on, and extend Leeds' strong collaborative capacity in research methodology, through knowledge transfer by promoting high quality cross-disciplinary research and teaching, in the fields of nutrition, obesity and health. The Centre aims to be cross-faculty and cross-Institute, it will be of potential benefit to a wide spectrum of staff within the University, and will help to promote the University within the city and beyond.