Sarah Warkentin

Dr. Sarah Warkentin

Environment and Health over the Lifecourse, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Biography

Sarah Warkentin is a Nutritionist, specialist in Health, Nutrition and Child Nutrition, has a Masters and PhD in Sciences by the Department of Pediatrics from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil. She worked as a university professor in the Nutrition and Nursing Bachelor courses in São Paulo, Brazil, besides supervising curricular internships, from 2012 to 2018. From 2019-2021, she worked at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (ISPUP) as a post-doctorate researcher and became a member of the Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR), in the Laboratory “Eating Behaviors and Childhood Obesity”. Since 2022, she is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), whre she investigates the relatioship between the urban exposome and child dietary and weight outcomes, using large multicenter cohort studies in Europe. Her current research interests are related to the investigation of environmental determinants of childhood health, childhood obesity and cardiovascular health, eating behaviors, assessment of food consumption and its impact on health.

Affiliations

Barcelona Institute for Global Health

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Environment and Health over the Lifecourse

Honors and Awards

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Travel Award in Nutrition, Education and Dietetics

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MDPI

Awarded by Nutrients in 2021

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