Prof. Dr. Bee Koon Poh is a Professor of Nutrition at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She serves as the Chair for the UKM Health and Advanced Medicine Research Cluster and is the Principal Investigator of South East Asian Nutrition Surveys (SEANUTS) Malaysia. She has participated in consultation work for the Ministry of Health Malaysia and was involved in the Academy of Sciences Malaysia’s Obesity Task Force to study "Prioritizing Food Policy Options to Reduce Obesity in Malaysia". She earned, a Ph.D. in Nutrition at UKM in 1997. She specializes in childhood and adolescent nutrition, obesity and energy metabolism, physical activity, and body composition. Her research areas focus on childhood and adolescent nutrition, and her projects cover surveys, observation, and intervention studies.
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Nutrition
physical activity
Obesity prevention
Child feeding
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Short Biography
Prof. Dr. Bee Koon Poh is a Professor of Nutrition at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She serves as the Chair for the UKM Health and Advanced Medicine Research Cluster and is the Principal Investigator of South East Asian Nutrition Surveys (SEANUTS) Malaysia. She has participated in consultation work for the Ministry of Health Malaysia and was involved in the Academy of Sciences Malaysia’s Obesity Task Force to study "Prioritizing Food Policy Options to Reduce Obesity in Malaysia". She earned, a Ph.D. in Nutrition at UKM in 1997. She specializes in childhood and adolescent nutrition, obesity and energy metabolism, physical activity, and body composition. Her research areas focus on childhood and adolescent nutrition, and her projects cover surveys, observation, and intervention studies.
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