Marleen Lentjes

About Marleen Lentjes

Marleen Lentjes (Maria) is a nutritional epidemiologist at Örebro University.  Before, she worked and did her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge (EPIC-Norfolk study). Marleen studied Dietetics and Health Sciences (Health Education).

Research

Marleen’s research interest is in dietary behaviour and how food choices outside the home and within, contribute to a person's health.  She is working on observational studies and interventions where diet/nutrition is considered as an exposure or outcome.

In prepartion for future studies, Marleen has carried out a validaton study for new dietary assessment tools.  These tools enable dietary assessment in a variety of ethnicities.  The first publication on "Mat i Sverige" can be found here.

Marleen's current project is in collaboration with Natasha Webster (human geographer) and is a testcase on dietary health promotion in the supermarket 'Food safari'.

Teaching

Marleen is course coordinator and examinator for T6 ("Reproduktion och Utveckling") and basgrupphandledare at the medical programme at Örebro University.  She also teaches on the courses "Translational Medicine", “Research Methods in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics” and "General Scientific Methods in Medical Science" at Örebro University and provides lectures on "Nutritional Epidemiology" at Health Sciences.  Marleen advises PhD students and BSc students.

Collaborations & assignments

Marleen is a Research Data advisor for the faculty of Medicin & Health.  More information can be found here.  An introduction to research data handling can be read in this shortstory (inforum): FAIR.

Marleen was a participant in the university's Social Impact Lab 2022.  More information about her idea of a 'Food safari' can be found here.