VERSCHUREN Monique

RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment,Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Monique Verschuren studied Human Nutrition (Wageningen University), specializing in Epidemiology.
She is Head of the Department ‘Life Course and Health’ at Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven.
She is a professor of ‘Healthy Vascular Ageing in Public Health Perspective’ at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht.
Main research topics are dietary and lifestyle determinants of cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline and also healthy ageing with a focus on maintaining vitality and preventing frailty over the life course.
She is the principal investigator of the Doetinchem Cohort Study, an ongoing longitudinal study that started in 1987, PI of the Dutch EPIC-MORGEN cohort and member of the international Steering Committee of the EPIC-Study (European Prospective Study into Nutrition and Cancer). She was responsible for the chapter on diet, smoking and physical activity in the 2012 and 2016 ‘’European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice”.
She is director of the recently assigned WHO Collaborating Center on Life Course and Health.
She is co-author of over 350 international peer-reviewed papers (H-index=79).

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