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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Carlos A. Monteiro, MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Nutrition and Public Health at the School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His research lines include methods in population nutritional and dietary assessment, secular trends and biological and socioeconomic determinants of nutritional deficiencies and obesity and other nutrition-related chronic diseases, food processing in the food system and human health, and food and nutrition programs and policies evaluation. He has published numerous books and book chapters and more than 300 articles in scientific journals with more than 28,000 citations in Web of Sciences (H index: 78). He is Scientific Editor of the Brazilian Public Health Journal (Revista de Saude Publica) since 2004 and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2008. He has served on numerous national and international nutrition expert panels and committees, including the WHO Nutrition Expert Advisory Group (2010-2023). In 2010, he received the PAHO Abraham Horwitz Award for Excellence in Leadership in Inter-American Health. In 2024, he received the World Obesity Federation William Philip T James Award for his outstanding contributions to the management, prevention and surveillance of obesity. Since 2018, he is listed by Clarivates Analytics/Web of Science among the top 1 of scientists in Social Sciences whose publications reached higher impact. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Through this project, USP plans to host Prof. Pedro Hallal as a Visiting Researcher for 12 months. Dr. Hallal is a renowned researcher in the use of longitudinal analyses to explore the long-term effect of physical activity on health outcomes. Prof. Hallal will work with USP researchers in two thematic projects: The NutriNet Brasil Cohort and the ISA - Physical Activity Cohort. Over 70% …
This thematic project (2022-2027) continues a previous project (2016-2021) about the consumption of ultra-processed foods and health in seven countries (including Brazil), which resulted in more than one hundred scientific articles that, published in high-impact international journals, had great influence on the science of nutrition and on the development of food and nutrition policies (i…
This project studies patterns of consumption of ultra-processed foods and their influence on the dietary nutrient profile and the risk of obesity in seven countries. The study is coordinated by NUPENS/USP and counts with research teams in each country. It involves the analysis of food intake data (24 h recalls or food registries) and weight and height measurements collected by national p…
The academic and programmatic interest on the theme of active transportation is growing globally, given its close relationship with current public health problems and its potential to contribute positively in crucial areas, such as transport, health and environment. However, most of the evidence about the theme has been developed in high-income countries, which have a distinct reality fro…
The Revista de Saúde Pública (RSP) has adopted since its beginning the evaluation by peer review system. Our editorial board is from varied institutional origin. The RSP was founded in 1967, and nowadays it has 47 complete and uninterrupted volumes. The mission of RSP is to publish and disseminate results of scientific research in the area of public health. With a bimonthly periodicity, t…
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Food biodiversity has the potential to promote healthier diets and improve the resilience of the Earth's system. Previous studies conducted in countries with different income levels show positive associations between species diversity in diets (Dietary Species Richness or DSR) and its adequacy in micronutrients, as well as an inverse association of DSR with all-cause mortality and the inc…
People with mental disorders present a reduced life expectancy, especially due to a higher incidence of cardiometabolic diseases. Dietary patterns and physical activity are associated with both the risk for depressive disorders as well as cardiometabolic diseases, however, little is known about their effect on the incidence of cardiometabolic diseases resulting from depressive disorders. …
Stroke is a medical condition characterized by the interruption of blood flow to the brain, resulting in damage to neural cells and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, with risk factors including hypertension, diabetes, smoking, physical inactivity, and dyslipidemia, among others. The objective of this study is to analyze and describe the prevalence of stroke a…
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The activity plan for this scholarship initially focuses (first 24 months) on studying the association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and the incidence (new cases) of type 2 diabetes mellitus among participants in the NutriNet Brasil cohort. The plan includes activities for the scholarship holder that will result in the preparation and publication of at least one scientific …
Since the study's launch in January 2020, the team has employed various communication strategies to enhance the research's visibility. The most successful approach has involved disseminating information through high-impact media outlets, including press coverage (TV programs and newspapers), podcasts, and the social media pages of influencers. In 2023, the NutriNet research team published…
The current profile of participants in the NutriNet Brazil cohort is predominantly composed of women (78.6%), residing in the Southeast (61.6%) and South (15.2%) regions, with completed higher education (62.9%), aged between 25 and 54 years (70.9%). Reaching certain population strata, such as males, residents of the North and Northeast regions, and those with lowereducational attainment, …
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Introduction: Psychiatric disorders, such as depression are among the leading causes of disability worldwide. Diet and physical activity are among the protective factors for depression. However, important gaps remain regarding the associations of diet and physical activity with depression. First, the association between the consumption of ultra-processed food and incident depression still…
This proposal consists of a research internship at the Food Policy Research Group, University of Melbourne, under the supervision of Dr Gyorgy Scrinis from March 2018 to February 2019. The work plan prioritizes the research project development, which includes knowledge exchange on food consumption patterns, dietary nutrient profile and obesity and nutrition policies in Australia, literatu…
This proposal consists of a research internship at the Harvard School of Public Health under the supervision of Professor Dariush Mozaffarian from the Department of Epidemiology. The objective of the research project is to evaluate the consumption of ready-to-eat food products in Brazil and its association with the nutritional status. The study comprises the analyses of data of 34.003 ind…
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