We@WUR: View prof.dr.ir. EJM Feskens

Name

Name	prof.dr.ir. EJM Feskens
Firstname	Edith
Email	edith.feskens@wur.nl

Job details

Description	Professor in Global Nutrition
Organization	Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences
Organization Unit	Human Nutrition & Health

Phone	+31 317 482 567
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Secretarial phone	+31 317 480 100
Phone 2	+31 317 482 220
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Visiting address	Stippeneng 4 6708WE, WAGENINGEN
Building/Room	124/1060
Postal address	Postbus 17 6700AA, WAGENINGEN
Courier	62

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Ancillary activities

Bestuurslid - IUNS International Union of Nutrition Sciences
Jan 2023 - Present

IUNS is the international society of nutrition scientists
Voorzitter - WUF Neys- van Hoogstraten Foundation
Nov 2022 - Present

The Neys-van Hoogstraten Foundation was founded in 1989 by the late Dr Karel Neys in honour of his parents. The main objective of the Neys-van Hoogstraten Foundation is to strengthen and stimulate socio-economic research in the field of household budgets, family nutrition, and food and nutrition security in Indonesia and other (Southeast) Asian countries.
Voorzitter - Nutricia Research Foundation
Oct 2021 - Present

The basic activity of the Foundation is to financially support scientific research projects in the field of Nutrition and Health by providing Research Grants to qualified young researchers for 1 or 2 years. The NUTRICIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION is a strictly independent Charity established in 1989 by N.V. Verenigde Bedrijven Nutricia. The Board has full and exclusive ownership of its Capital and has the legal mandate to operate according to the articles of association and to take any deemed decision useful to fulfil its mission. The Charity and its articles of association are registered at the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK The Hague registration number: 41155715); the RSIN/fiscal number is: 804248047. (see for more information www.nutriciaresearch-foundation.org)
member working group External Communication and Public Trust - FENS federation of european nutrition societies
Jun 2020 - Present

FENS has initiated 3 working groups dedicated to “Improved Standards in the Science of Nutrition”. External communication and public trust is one of them. Goal is to provide the members and the global field with guidance.
Board member - Stichting Nutrition in Transition
Dec 2017 - Present

The foundation NiT aims to improve concepts, methods and interaction in nutrition research by initiating and fostering debates and discussions, to make the filed fit for the future.
Nutrition Advisor - Dutch Diabetes Foundation (DFN)
May 2016 - Present

Providing advice on nutrition related topics to the DFN staff

Biography

Prof. Edith Feskens (Breda, 1962) obtained her MSc degree in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University in 1987. In the same year she started her PhD at Leiden University, at the department of Social Medicine under supervision of prof. Daan Kromhout. She received her PhD degree in 1991 (‘epidemiological studies on glucose tolerance – dietary determinants and cardiovascular consequences’). She continued to work at the RIVM (National Institute of Public Health and the Environment) until 2005 in various roles such as head of the unit of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Epidemiology. She was involved in ao the Zutphen Study and EU projects on obesity and diabetes, such as Diogenes and InterAct.

In 2005 she was appointed as associate professor at the chair group of Nutritional Epidemiology at Wageningen University, and in 2008 she became personal professor in Nutrition and the Metabolic syndrome. In 2015 she was appointed as chair of Nutrition and Health over the Lifecourse, and subsequently chair of Global Nutrition in 2018.

She currently is ao. co-director of the Gerrit Grijns Initiative (http://bit.ly/3v0lBfn) and theme leader at OnePlanet (https://oneplanetresearch.nl/). She is certified supervisor in Epidemiology (https://www.epidemiologie.nl/) and in Nutrition Sciences (NAV (voedingsacademie.nl)). Until November 2022 she was Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of JPI-HDHL (https://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/). In December 2022 she was elected as Council Member of the IUNS (International Union of Nutritional Sciences).

Since January 2019 the combined lifestyle intervention for the prevention of type 2 diabetes (SLIMMER) that was developed by her and her team over the period 1998-2018, is included in the Dutch basic health insurance (https://www.nogslimmer.nl/); a true milestone. Currently, she focuses on combatting malnutrition in all its forms, globally and in particular in low and middle-income countries, and including trade-offs with sustainability.