Name
Jayne Woodside
Role
Funded Investigator
Professor Jayne Woodside is a Professor of Human Nutrition within the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University. She was appointed head of the Food, Nutrition and Health theme and Deputy Director of IGFS in 2015. Her research focuses on the impact of diet and lifestyle on chronic disease risk, specialising in the use of biomarkers to assess dietary intake and conducting controlled dietary interventions to promote long-term dietary change.
Professor Woodside studied Human Sciences at the University of Oxford and obtained her PhD in nutritional epidemiology from Queen’s University in 1997. She then undertook a research fellowship at University College London before returning to Belfast in 2000 to take up a lectureship at Queen’s, where she was promoted to Chair in 2012. With over 180 original publications, Professor Woodside is widely published in the nutrition field. She currently holds funding from the Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, and the Wellcome Trust. She is a Trustee of the Nutrition Society, Honorary Publication Officer for its journals, Editor in Chief of Nutrition Research Reviews, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
