Tânia Gonçalves Albuquerque
Chair
Helena Soares Costa
Chair
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to attend the 1st International Congress on Food, Nutrition & Public Health - Towards a sustainable future, that will be held by Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge and will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, by 17th November 2022.
In recent years, scientific evidence continues to show us that there is a strong relationship between diet, lifestyle, and the early development of serious public health problems, which lead to a decrease in quality of life and premature mortality of the population.
The ICFNH 2022 will address the following main topics: sustainable food production and consumption; sustainable diets and human nutrition; and impact of sustainable food and nutrition in Public Health.
Ensuring that healthy eating translates into sustainable food with benefits for public health requires everyone's collaboration.
We look forward to welcoming you in November 2022 in the lovely city of Lisbon!
HONOUR COMMITEE
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Alexandra Bento, Ordem dos Nutricionistas, Portugal
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Fernando de Almeida, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Portugal
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Gregorio Varela-Moreiras, Universidad CEU San Pablo, Spain
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Hettie Schönfeldt, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira, Ministério da Coesão Territorial, Portugal
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M. Beatriz P. P. Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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Adriana Pavesi Arisseto Bragotto, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
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Ana Gomes, Universidade Católica, Portugal
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Ana Luísa Fernando, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Alessandra Durazzo, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Italy
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Carlos Brandão, Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal
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Fernando Ramos, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Helena Real, Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição, Portugal
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Helena Soares Costa, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Portugal
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Isabel Carvalho, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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Lillian Barros, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
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Manuel Álvarez-Ortí, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
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Manuel Coimbra, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Maria Eduardo Figueira, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Maria Glibetić, Institute for Medical Research, Belgrade
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Maria Kapsokefalou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
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Massimo Lucarini, Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis, Italy
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Mirjana Gurinović, Institute for Medical Research, Belgrade
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Paula Pereira, Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz, Portugal
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Silvina Palma, Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Portugal
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Tânia Gonçalves Albuquerque, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Portugal
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Helena Soares Costa
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Tânia Gonçalves Albuquerque
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Mafalda Alexandra Silva
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Anabela Coelho
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Cristina Flores
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Marta Ventura
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Paulo Fernandes
INVITED SPEAKERS
Professor Hettie Schönfeldt
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Professor Schönfeldt research focuses on linking nutrient quantity and quality of foods to sustainable food systems for attaining nutrition and food security for all. She publishes evidence on why country specific food composition data is essential to make it possible to interpret the dietary outcomes of countries. She serves as scientific advisor to AFROFOODS, a network on the African continent, forming part of IUNS/UNU/FAO INFOODS Task Force. She is co-director of the new African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Food System and holds a South African Department of Science and Technology /National Research Foundation Research Chairs Initiative chair in Nutrition and Food Security.
Rita Alves
REQUIMTE, LAQV/FFUP, Portugal
Rita Alves is graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences and concluded her European PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (specialty of Nutrition and Food Chemistry) by the University of Porto in 2010. Since then, she has been working as researcher in the field of Food Chemistry. Currently, she is Principal Researcher at REQUIMTE/LAQV and develops her investigation work at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto, also collaborating with other national and international institutions. She led and participated in national and international projects, including projects with industry. She has supervised several post-docs, PhD and MSc students, published 1 book, more than 90 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and is author/co-author of more than 300 communications presented in national and international meetings. She belonged to the Organizing Committee of several scientific events and her work has been recognized through distinctions and awards by different entities. In the last years, she has been dedicating her research to the agri-food by-products valorization, in straight collaboration with national companies, in order to answer to sustainability and circular economy needs.
João Costa Leite
European Commission
Joao Costa Leite currently works at the European Commission providing scientific support to EU policy in the field of nutrition and public health for health promotion, including the implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy, a key action to achieve more sustainable food systems. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at Universidade Fernando Pessoa in the Nutrition Sciences BSc degree. He holds a PhD in Human Nutrition from University College Dublin and a BSc Degree in Nutrition Sciences from FCNAUP. He is a recognized specialist in Community Nutrition and Public Health by the Ordem dos Nutricionistas.
Helena Real
Portuguese Association of Nutrition, Portugal
Nutritionist, graduated in Nutrition Sciences from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto. Specialist in Community Nutrition and Public Health. PhD in Food Consumption and Nutrition Sciences, from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto, in the Mediterranean Diet area. Master in Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto. General-Secretary of the Portuguese Association of Nutrition. Editorial Coordinator of Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição. Extensive experience in coordinating and managing programs and projects within the scope of Food Sustainability. Guest Assistant Professor of the Degree in Nutrition Sciences at the University Institute of Health Sciences – Cespu. Element of the Toxicology Research Unit – TOXRUN – of the University Institute of Health Sciences – Cespu. Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Food Sustainability at the University Institute of Health Sciences Cespu. Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Nutrition and Food Supplementation at the University Institute of Health Sciences – Cespu. Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Nutrition in Sport at the University Institute of Health Sciences – Cespu.
Ana Cristina Garcia
National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Portugal
She is a specialist in Public Health, with expertise in Health Services Management, at the Department of Epidemiology of the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA). At INSA, she is also a member of the Ethics Committee for Health. She is a member of the Technical Coordination of the National Health Plan 2021-2030 and a PhD candidate in International Health (specialization in Health and Development Policies) at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/ NOVA University of Lisbon, where she is part of the research center on Global Health and Tropical Medicine. She teaches professional and academic training courses at universities and national health services and in Portuguese-speaking African countries. Represents Portugal in the Public Health Medicine Section of the European Union of Specialist Doctors, having integrated the Board of the Public Health College of the Order of Doctors between 2000 and 2020. She served as Director of Health Services at the Regional Health Administration of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo and as Coordinator of the Study and Evaluation Office in Setúbal, and was a member of the Clinical Council of the Grouping of Health Centers in Almada.
Carla Lopes
Faculty of Medicine/Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Portugal
Carla Lopes, Nutritionist, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Porto Medical School (FMUP); Coordinator of the PhD programme in Public Health, member of the Pedagogical Council (2010-2022) and currently member of the Scientific Council of FMUP. She is member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).
She is a Researcher at the Epidemiology Research Unit, Institute of Public Health-University of Porto (EPIUnit-ISPUP) and an integrated member of the Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR). She coordinates the research line “Life course research and healthy ageing” and the research group on “Nutrition and cardiometabolic health”.
She was Coordinator of the National Food and Physical Activity Survey (IAN-AF 2015-2016) and of the implementation of the EU-menu project in Portugal (European Food Safety Agency-EFSA); She is a member of the European network “Food Consumption databases” (FCD-EFSA). She integrated the team of several scientific projects (9 as PI and 2 Co-PI), namely funded by the European Union (HECTOR, HABEAT, STOP) and by the European Security Agency. Food (EU-Menu, RiskBenefit4EU, DOSE, ERA EU-Menu).