Dr Charlotte Evans
- Position: Associate Professor
- Areas of expertise: nutrition; epidemiology; children; cardiovascular disease; public health; dietary quality; systematic literature review.
- Email: C.E.L.Evans@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 3956
- Location: 1.17 Stead House
Profile
My research interests are focused on the evaluation of interventions and policies to improve nutritional behaviour, behavioural nutrition in children and young people, and factors affecting diet quality and health outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Undergraduate admissions tutor
Research interests
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Evaluation of interventions to improve nutritional behaviour
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Evaluation of nutrition policies to improve nutritional behaviour
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Behavioural nutrition in children and young people
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Factors affecting dietary quality such as portion size, energy density and diet diversity
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Impact of fruit and vegetables on health outcomes
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Children's school meals and packed lunches
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The relationship between dietary patterns and markers of heart disease
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Epidemiological methods - randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews
Qualifications
- PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology
Professional memberships
- Association for Nutrition
- Nutrition Society
- Society for Social Medicine
Student education
I contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in nutritional epidemiology, public health nutrition and nutrition policy.
Research groups and institutes
- Nutrition and Public Health
- Nutritional Epidemiology
- Obesity, Cancer and Metabolic Disease
- Human Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention