FOROUHI Nita
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nita Forouhi is a physician scientist in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge where she is Professor of Population Health and Nutrition and works on the link between diet, nutrition and the risk of diabetes, obesity and related metabolic disorders.
- Her research interests include nutritional epidemiology, the development and application of improved methods to assess diet including nutritional biomarkers, and global nutrition and health.
- Nita serves in several academic roles including as co-lead of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre theme on Nutrition, Obesity, Metabolism and Endocrinology, and she is an NIHR Senior Investigator. She is also a Principal Investigator on several studies including the EU-FP6 funded EPIC-InterAct Study, the Fenland Study, the SABRE study and the EU-FP7 funded InterConnect Project and EPIC-CVD study. She has published over 300 scientific articles.
- Nita is the Director of Organizational Affairs at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine and she is also a keen educator, training postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and public health trainees.
- Nita trained in Medicine at the University of Newcastle where she also obtained a First-Class Honor degree in Immunology. She further trained in General Medicine and Diabetes & Endocrinology in Edinburgh and obtained the MRCP. She was a Wellcome Training Fellow and was awarded a Master and PhD in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Recent publications:
- Forouhi NG. Embracing complexity: making sense of diet, nutrition, obesity and type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. 2023; 66(5):786-799.
- Zheng JS, et al. Association of plasma biomarkers of fruit and vegetable intake with incident type 2 diabetes: EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study in eight European countries. BMJ. 2020; 370:m2194.
- Zheng JS, et al. Plasma Vitamin C and Type 2 Diabetes: Genome-Wide Association Study and Mendelian Randomization Analysis in European Populations. Diabetes Care. 2021; 44(1):98-106.
- Pearce M, et al. Associations of Total Legume, Pulse, and Soy Consumption with Incident Type 2 Diabetes: Federated Meta-Analysis of 27 Studies from Diverse World Regions. J Nutr. 2021; 151(5):1231-1240.
- Mba CM, et al. The association between plasma zinc concentrations and markers of glucose metabolism in adults in Cameroon. Br J Nutr. 2023:1-8.