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Emily Sonestedt is an Associate Professor in Nutritional Epidemiology at Lund University and affiliated with the Department of Food and Meal Science at Kristianstad University. She is a member of the Center for Food, Health and Retail (FOHRK) and the research group Food and Meals in Everyday Life (MEAL), and serves on the university-wide ethics council.
Education:
- MSc in Nutrition, Stockholm University (2003)
- PhD in Public Health Science and Nutritional Epidemiology, Lund University (2009)
Her research centers on the relationship between dietary factors and disease risk, with a focus on type 2 diabetes, cancer, and cardiometabolic diseases. She employs advanced methodologies including nutritional epidemiology, metabolomics, and dietary intake modeling. Her recent work explores sustainable diets, the environmental impact of food, and the role of gastronomy in public meal settings. She is actively involved in population-based cohort studies and contributes to the understanding of how diet influences long-term health outcomes.
Her most recent publications reveal a strong trend toward interdisciplinary research, combining public health, food science, sustainability, and behavioral insights. Topics include dairy and diabetes risk, greenhouse gas emissions of diets, and innovative approaches to healthy eating through gastronomy and design fiction. This reflects a growing emphasis on holistic, systems-based approaches to nutrition and health.
She has supervised doctoral students and served on examination committees, including as opponent at the University of Bergen. She has also contributed as an invited speaker at international conferences such as the 22nd World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, and as a member of the program committee for the 13th Nordic Nutrition Conference. Additionally, she provided expert review for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre on dairy-related materials.
Her research contributes to several UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those related to good health and well-being (SDG 3) and responsible consumption and production (SDG 12). She is frequently engaged in public outreach, appearing in national media outlets such as Aftonbladet, SVT, and Sveriges Radio to discuss sugar, milk consumption, and children's nutrition.
