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Dr Silvia Pastorino

MSc PhD

Research Fellow
Sustainability, Nutrition and Health

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I gained an MSc in Public Health Nutrition at LSHTM and a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health from UCL focusing on dietary patterns, anthropometric outcomes and diabetes. Following my PhD, I have worked at the MRC Epidemiology Unit where I was coordinating international cross cohort collaborations investigating the link between health behaviours, obesity and diabetes. I have also worked at UCL Unit for Behavioural Science where I coordinated the data collection for the Gemini study – a twin cohort study on eating behaviour. I joined the School in 2020 working in nutrition, sustainability and health.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I teach in the module Nutrition Related Chronic Disease.

Research

My research has focused on the association between diet and metabolic and chronic diseases. I have an interest in methodologies for collecting and analysing dietary data across the life course. More recently my research focus has shifted towards ways to achieve sustainable diets and their impact on health and the environment. I work within the Nutrition Group in the Department of Population Health. I currently work on the AMPHoRA project investigating the impact of dietary changes on agriculture-related air pollution in the UK.

Research Area
Climate change
Health outcomes
Food
Modelling
Discipline
Epidemiology
Nutrition
Disease and Health Conditions
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Chronic disease
Diabetes
Non-communicable diseases
Obesity
Region
World

Selected Publications

The future of meat and dairy consumption in the UK: exploring different policy scenarios to meet net zero targets and improve population health
Pastorino S; Cornelsen L; Cuevas Garcia-Dorado S; Dangour AD; Milner J; Milojevic A; Scheelbeek P; Wilkinson P; Green R
2023
Global Sustainability
Nitrate and nitrite contamination in drinking water and cancer risk: A systematic review with meta-analysis.
Picetti R; Deeney M; Pastorino S; Miller MR; Shah A; Leon DA; Dangour AD; Green R
2022
Environmental Research
Heterogeneity of Associations between Total and Types of Fish Intake and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes: Federated Meta-Analysis of 28 Prospective Studies Including 956,122 Participants
Pastorino S; Bishop T; Sharp SJ; Pearce M; Akbaraly T; Barbieri NB; Bes-Rastrollo M; Beulens JWJ; Chen Z; Du H
2021
Nutrients
Associations between maternal physical activity in early and late pregnancy and offspring birth size: remote federated individual level meta‐analysis from eight cohort studies
Pastorino S; Bishop T; Crozier SR; Granström C; Kordas K; Küpers LK; O'Brien EC; Polanska K; Sauder KA; Zafarmand MH
2018
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Validation of self-reported diagnosis of diabetes in the 1946 British birth cohort
Pastorino S; Richards M; Hardy R; Abington J; Wills A; Kuh D; Pierce M
2015
Primary Care Diabetes
A high fat, high GI, low fibre dietary pattern is associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk in British adults
Richards M; Pierce M; Kuh D; Anbrosini G
Ann Nutr Metab 2013;63(suppl 1):1–1960
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