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Name: Annie Anderson  
Annie_Anderson  

Post currently held:

Professor of Food Choice and Director of the Centre for Public Nutrition Research

Degrees & Diplomas:

BSc
 
PhD
 
SRD
RPHNutr
   

Main Research Interest:
Annie Anderson graduated in 1979 as a dietitian and after two years clinical practice has pursued a research career with posts in the Universities of Cambridge, Aberdeen, Glasgow and the MRC Medical Sociology Unit.

Research interests focus on factors that influence food choice, dietary assessment methodology and the impact of dietary selection on human health. Diet and health inequalities has been a major theme of recent work and current research involves assessing the impact of dietary interventions in studies of free living individuals.

Her current research programme has a commitment to multi-disciplinary approaches combining expertise in the social and behavioural sciences with biomedical approaches and incorporating current research into dietetic practice aimed at preventing, delaying and managing chronic diet related diseases such as cardio-vascular disease and cancer.

 

Main Clinical Interest:

Other Activities/Editorships
 
Editor of The Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Blackwell Science)
Expert Member of the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN)
Member of Scottish Executive expert panel on school meals

 

Most Recent Publications
Leitz G, Longbottom PJ, Barton KL Anderson AS (2002) Can the EPIC Food Frequency Questionnaire be used in an adolescent population Pub Health Nutr (in press)
Roos G Anderson AS Lean MEJ (2002) Dietary interventions in Finland, Norway and Sweden – policy and implementation. Journal Human Nutrition and Dietetics (in press)
Anderson AS, Bell A, Adamson A, Moynihan P (2002) A questionnaire assessment of nutrition knowledge -validity and reliability issues. Public Health Nutrition (in press)
Anderson AS (2001)Pregnancy as a time for dietary change Proc Nutr Soc 60, 497-504
Valdés-Ramos R, Solomons NW, Anderson AS, Mendoza I, Garcés MA, Benicasa L.(2001) Can the degree of concordance with recommendations for a cancer prevention diet and lifestyle be assessed from existing survey information data? Am J Clin Nutr;74:848-851.
Han T. Lean MEJ, Bush H, Williams R, Anderson AS (2001) Ethnic Differences in Anthropometric and Lifestyle Measures Related to Coronary Heart Disease Risk between South Asian, Italian and General Population British Women living in the West of Scotland. International Journal of Obesity 25(12) 1800-1805
Anderson AS, Guthrie CA, Alder B, Forsyth S Howie PW Williams FL (2001) Rattling the plate – reasons and rationales for early weaning. Health Education Research 16.2 471-479

 

 
     
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