Julie Armstrong

Dr.

Senior Lecturer, Human Nutrition and Dietetics

Emailjar@gcu.ac.uk

70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow Caledonian University
G4 0BA Glasgow
United Kingdom

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Julie is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition, she has a PhD in Nutrition Epidemiology, a Master’s in Public Health, is a registered nutritionist and is a Dietitian.

Julie started her career in nutrition and dietetics in 1981 as a research nutritionist at the MRC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of Aberdeen on a project measuring the effect of nutrient intake on birthweight. Following this she qualified as a Dietitian and worked in Leeds, London and finally Cambridge, where she worked as a Paediatric Dietitian and in the Liver transplant unit.

In 1989 she worked overseas for 3 years as a Public Health Nutritionist in Tonga, South Pacific. There she began to develop her expertise in maternal/infant nutrition and food policy, she managed a World Health Organisation funded programme to develop an integrated approach (health/agriculture/planning) to national nutrition and health policy.

Since returning to Scotland she has worked as an academic, consultant and researcher. Her area of research and skill base is maternal /infant nutrition and childhood obesity as related to global and national health priorities in both developed and developing countries. She was an author a ground breaking paper linking nutrition and growth patterns early in life to childhood obesity Early risk factors for childhood obesity in contemporary children BMJ 330: 1357.doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38470.670903.E0

Julie's commitment is to improve the nutriitonal health of mothers and babies. As a member of a number of government health, research and development strategy groups over the past 25 years Julie’s research has informed national health policy development. She has made significant contributions to a number of national nutrition policy developments, in particular: Improving Maternal and Infant Nutrition: A Framework for Action http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/01/13095228/0 and pre-school nutrition Nutritional Guidance and Food Standards for pre-school children in Scotland http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/21130.aspx , including policy papers on childhood obesity and Vitamin D status. She has a substantial experience and skill set in translational research.

Key themes:

Nutritional Epidemiology: maternal, infant, childhood obesity
The influence of maternal and infant nutrition on later health and well being
Public health policy on food and nutrition

Keywords

Maternal and Child Health
Nutritional Epidemiology
Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Food and Nutrition Policy

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10 Article
3 Commissioned report
2 Conference contribution
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Development of a diet quality index for the Scottish population

Barton, K. L., Wrieden, W. L., Masson, L. F., Anderson, A. S., Sherriff, A. & Armstrong, J. A., 29 Sep 2017, In : Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 76, OCE3, 1 p., E116.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

Reported prevalence of gestational diabetes in Scotland: the relationship with obesity, age, socioeconomic status, smoking and macrosomia, and how many are we missing?

Collier, A., Abraham, E. C., Armstrong, J., Godwin, J., Monteath, K. & Lindsay, R., Mar 2017, In : Journal of Diabetes Investigation. 8, 2, p. 161-167 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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