Dr. Marian Kjellevold

My main area of expertise is food security and nutrition with focus on micronutrients in aquatic foods. I have extensive experience in dietary studies with seafood with special focus on the first thousand days (pregnancy and infants), and development and validation of food frequency questionnaires with biological marker. Today, aquatic food make up a small part of the world’s food supply, and is not well integrated in solving the goals to achieve “zero hunger” (UN SDG 2) and “good health and well-being” (SDG3). Thus, my research focus on how SDG14 (Life below water) can contribute to better nutrition security in low- and middle income countries in Africa and Asia.