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Research interests

Zoi Toumpakari is a Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Behaviour Change. Her research focuses on upstream determinants of eating behaviour, for example the physical environment, advertising and the role of policies in shaping eating behaviour. She is also interested in the role of dietary patterns in the prevention of cardiometabolic health.

Her current research is focused on the following:

  • How features of the eating environment, like where and with whom people eat, influence adults' and children's diet and how these could be altered to improve nutritional intake.
  • The role of the out-of-home food sector on the population's diet
  • Evaluating policies of food advertising restrictions to understand impact on people's diet

External positions

Associate Editor, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

1 Sept 2022 → …

External Examiner, Aegean College Omiros Group

1 Aug 2022 → …

Member of ESDN in Public Health, The European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians

1 Apr 2022 → …

Member, British Dietetic Association

1 Jan 2021 → …

Research Groups and Themes

  • SPS Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences

Keywords

  • Nutrition
  • Food environment
  • Food adverising
  • out-of-home food sector
  • adolescents
  • adults
  • dietary patterns
  • determinants of eating behaviour

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