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Paulina Nowicka is a Professor at the Department of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics at Uppsala University. With over two decades of experience, her research focuses on childhood obesity, family-based interventions, and intergenerational lifestyle patterns. She has developed the More and Less program, a parental support initiative for preschoolers with obesity, now part of the EU-funded STOP project.
Research Areas:
- Child obesity prevention and treatment
- Parental feeding practices and psychosocial factors
- Social inequality in health outcomes
- Validation of behavioral assessment tools
- Impact of pandemics on child nutrition
- National obesity guideline development
Article Trends: Her recent work examines the socioeconomic burden of child obesity during the pandemic, adiposity-based chronic disease frameworks, and longitudinal effects of obesity interventions. Collaborative studies in Sweden, Spain, and Romania highlight cross-cultural treatment efficacy and family dynamics in managing obesity.
Awards & Collaborations: While no specific awards are listed, she collaborates with institutions like Yale University, University of Oregon, and the University of Oxford's Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity. She has served on expert committees for the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) and Sweden’s National Food Agency.
Education & Mentorship: Supervised doctoral students Anna Ek, Karolin Bergman, and Maria Somaraki. Mentored postdoctoral researchers including Elin Lövestam and Pernilla Sandvik, now in academic roles at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet.
Labs & Teams: Leads the More and Less Study team, adapting interventions for children with obesity and ADHD in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet. Integrates qualitative and quantitative methods to assess treatment effects on metabolic health, parent-child communication, and policy implementation.
