Vânia Magalhães

Vânia Magalhães is graduated in Nutrition Sciences (2013), master in Consumer Sciences and Nutrition (2018) and PhD in Public Health (2024). She was involved in the fieldwork coordination of the National Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (2015-2016). Later on, she worked in the fifth follow-up of the EPITeen cohort. And, after been working in the UPPer project – Consumption of ultra-processed foods, nutritional profile and obesity in Portugal, she attended a Doctoral Program in Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto. Her work, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), explored the effect of ultra-processed foods consumption both on adiposity and cardiometabolic health from childhood to adolescence.

She currently works in the area of clinical nutrition at Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António and is amember of the Lab “Nutrition and cardiometabolic health” of the Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR).