Joana Araújo

Joana Araújo graduated in Nutritional Sciences at the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences in 2008, and completed a Master in Public Health in 2010 and a PhD in Public Health in 2016 at the University of Porto Medical School (Portugal).

From Oct 2017 to May 2019, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC, studying obesity and cardiometabolic health, and causes of unintentional weight loss in young to middle-aged adults.

Presently, she is a PhD Researcher at ITR – Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health, integrated in the Lab Causes and prevention of obesity and its consequences, and she is funded by the 2nd edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) from FCT (CEECIND/01271/2018).

Her research areas of interest are the nutritional and obesity epidemiology, and in particular the life course approach to obesity and cardiometabolic factors.