Scholar
Kiefte-de Jong
Google Scholar ID: xWZUyUkAAAAJ
Professor of Population Health
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,278
H-index
47
i10-index
153
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple research papers on nutrition, lifestyle, life-course health research, and psychosocial and environmental factors influencing health behavior. Examples include: 'The Food Environment Around Primary Schools in a Diverse Urban Area in the Netherlands', 'The COVID-19 Crisis as a Teachable Moment for Lifestyle Change in Dutch Cardiovascular Disease Patients', etc.
Research Experience
- Currently a professor and head of research at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Leiden University Medical Center. Previously worked at the International Honours College of Leiden University (The Hague) and the Department of Epidemiology and Pediatrics at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Education
- Registered nutritionist at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences; MSc in Public Health Research and Nutrition from VU University (The Netherlands); PhD in Early Life Nutrition from Sophia Children's Hospital/Erasmus Medical Center (The Netherlands) in 2012; Visiting researcher at Harvard School of Public Health (USA) in 2014 and 2016.
Background
- Population Health - Prevention - Nutrition and lifestyle - Non-communicable diseases - Life-course Health Research. Her primary research is focused on the role of nutrition and lifestyle on the risk of chronic diseases in different stages of life (e.g., during pregnancy, childhood, and adulthood) as well as psychosocial and environmental aspects of health behavior.