Carlos A. Monteiro, MD, PhD, Professor of Nutrition and Public Health at the School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is the Head of the USP Center for Epidemiological Studies in Health and Nutrition. 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 250 articles in scientific journals with more than 20,000 citations in Web of Sciences (H index: 70). He is Scientific Editor of the Brazilian Public Health Journal (?Revista de Saude Publica?) since 2000 and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2008. He has served on numerous national and international nutrition expert panels and committees. Since 2010, he is member of the WHO Nutrition Expert Advisory Group. In 2010, he received the PAHO Abraham Horwitz Award for Excellence in Leadership in Inter-American Health. In 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 he was listed by Clarivate?s 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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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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Biodiversity is a pre-condition for preserving natural resources and sustaining life. Nevertheless, global biodiversity is constantly declining, with substantial ongoing losses of populations, species and habitats. Both agricultural intensification and simplification of human diets have been considered key drivers of agrobiodiversity loss. Two main characteristics observed on a global sca…
The aim of this study will be to analyze the prospective association between ultra-processed food consumption and depressive symptoms with emphasis in the co-occurrence with physical inactivity. This project will use data from the 1982 Pelotas birth cohort (n=5,914 during the baseline), using the 2004 and 2012 time points, when cohort participants were 22 and 30 years old respectively. Da…
The post-doctoral project, part of the thematic project 'Consumption of ultra-processed foods, diet quality and obesity in seven countries', involves studies regarding the impact of ultra-processed foods on the risk of obesity in three cohorts of children born in Pelotas, Brazil, and in one cohort of children living in Andhra Pradesh, India, besides the post-doc participation in other stu…
In 2005, Simpson and Raubenheimer, based on experimental studies, postulated that human diets with insufficient protein content would lead to excessive calorie consumption (Protein Leverage Hypothesis - PLH), mainly due to a physiological priority to mantain protein intake constant. In this way, factors leading to a reduction in the protein content of contemporary diets could lead to an i…
This project is part of the thematic project "Consumption of ultra-processed foods, dietary nutrient profile and obesity in seven countries". The objective is to describe the pattern of consumption of ultra-processed foods in Australia and to analyze its influence on the dietary nutrient profile and the risk of obesity. The data source is the National Nutrition and Physical Activity Surve…
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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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