Epidemiologist in Nutrition, School of Public Health, Ecole de Sante Publique (BE)
Since 2015, Katia Castetbon is full-time professor in epidemiology at the School of Public Health (Ecole de Santé Publique, Université libre de Bruxelles), the coordinator of the Specialized Master in Public Health Methodology (MPHM), and the head of the “Service d’Information, Promotion, Education Santé” (Sipes-ULB). Before coming to Belgium, she was the head of the Unit of Nutrition Surveillance and Epidemiology at the French Institute for Health Surveillance (now, Santé Publique France) for 15 years. During this period, she supervised the set-up of various surveys in France (national surveys in adults and children, in infants, in food assistance receivers, in West Indies populations…). She also collaborated with the research team at Inserm/Université Paris 13 headed by Prof. Serge Hercberg, including the development of the Nutrinet-Santé Cohort. At last, she participated in various groups of expertise for the operational development of the “Programme National Nutrition Santé”. At the Centre of Research in “Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical research” (ESP-ULB), she develops research projects on the dietary behaviors in the general population, especially on methodology for their assessment, and on their determinants such as socioeconomic and cultural characteristics. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic and cultural determinants of dietary behaviors in adolescents and young adults in Belgium (funds: Action de recherche concertée - ARC-ULB-FWB). In the frame of a collaboration with Sciensano, one of her ongoing projects is on the cost of healthy diet compared with observed diet in Belgium (funds: Research credit, FNRS). Another project aimed at estimating the efficiency of interventions combining nutrition-based and sustainability-based approaches in the reduction of sugary-sweetened beverages in primary schools (funds: Research project 2021-2024, FNRS). She is also the Principal Investigator of the “Health behavior in School-aged Children” (HBSC) survey carried out in French-speaking Belgian schools every four years, which is funded by the Office de la Naissance et de l’Enfance (ONE), and by the Brussels and Walloon regions. As the head of the Sipes, she contributes to the development of health promotion plans in the Brussels and Walloon regions.
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