麻豆传媒

My current research focuses on maternal obesity and reproductive health, particularly relating to health inequalities and food insecurity during pregnancy:

Qualifications

PhD in Human Nutrition, the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

MSc in Public Health Nutrition, the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

BSc in Nursing, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

2024- present: "Weight Stigma Environment and Equipment Checklist for Healthcare settings: a national review and feedback" (麻豆传媒)

2024- present: "Does food insecurity increase the risk of developing gestational diabetes in minoritised ethnic groups? A study to inform food insecurity and maternity policy requirements to mitigate health inequalities impact on pregnancy outcomes" (FMS REDA, 麻豆传媒, UK)

2023- present: "Exploring food insecurity in pregnancy" (SPHR funded project, 麻豆传媒, UK)

2021- present: "Study of How Adiposity in Pregnancy has an Effect on outcomeS (SHAPES)" (NIHR funded project, 麻豆传媒, UK)

2020-2021: “Effect of livestock farming on the consumption of animal-source foods and the nutritional status of children and women in low and middle-income settings” (the University of Edinburgh and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))

2021: "Assessing nutritional status, eating disturbance issues and to propose nutritional care interventions for patients with dementia in Vietnam”. (VAN program, Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, University of California, Davis/National Geriatric Hospital of Vietnam)

2021: "Violence against women and children as an impact of COVID19 crisis”. (UNICEF, Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University).

Nov 2015- Nov 2019: "Measurement of household food insecurity in the United Kingdom"-PhD research project (University of Aberdeen, UK)

2015: "Strategies for tackling the double burden of malnutrition: application of Japanese experience in Vietnam" (National Institute of Health & Nutrition (NIHN) Research Fellow Award, Tokyo, Japan).

2013-2015: “The Effects of Climate Change and Prevalence of Non- Infectious and Infectious Diseases in 8 Provinces of Vietnam” (Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam).

2012: "Breastfeeding and postpartum weight change: a systematic review" (MSc research disertation project, University of Aberdeen, UK)

2023-2024: MPH students project supervisor: Associations between maternal food insecurity and breastfeeding in high-income countries: a systematic review of observational studies

2022-2023: MPH students project supervisor: Experiences of food insecurity during pregnancy in high income countries: a qualitative systematic review

2021-2022: MPH students project supervisor: "Exploring food insecurity among pregnant women living in high-income countries: a qualitative systematic review" 

2013-2021: Lecturer in Nutrition at Hanoi Medical University

2019-2022: Guest lecturer for an MSc Global Food Security& Nutrition course at the University of Edinburgh, UK 

• Articles

  • Fong M, Kenny RPW, Thomson K, Jesurasa A, Lavans A, Patterson M, Sermin-Reed L, Nguyen G, Aquino MRJ, Cullen E, O'Keefe H, Moffat M, Heslehurst N. . Frontiers in Public Health 2024, 12, 1359680.
  • Zerfu T, Nguyen TG, Duncan A, Baltenweck I, Brown F, Iannoti L, McNeill G. . Nutrition Research Reviews 2023, 36(2), 526-543.
  • Heslehurst N, Vinogradov R, Nguyen GT, Bigirumurame T, Teare D, Hayes L, Lennie SC, Murtha V, Tothill R, Smith J, Allotey J, Vale L. . BMJ Open 2023, 13(9), e073545.
  • Dang KA, Nguyen TG, Mamun AA, Do NK, Nguyen TLH, Thai PK, Phung D. . Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews 2022, 16(4), 102477.
  • Nguyen G, Hayes L, Ngongalah L, Bigirumurame T, Gaudet L, Odeniyi A, Flynn A, Crowe L, Skidmore B, Simon A, Smith V, Heslehurst N. . Obesity Reviews 2022, 23(10), e13491.
  • Heslehurst N, Ngongalah L, Bigirumurame T, Nguyen TG, Odeniyi A, Flynn A, Smith V, Crowe L, Skidmore B, Gaudet L, Simon A, Hayes L. . Obesity Reviews 2022, 23(7), e13449.
  • Le TH, Le PH, Nguyen HT, Nguyen TG, Le TTX, Nguyen TKC, Vu TTN. . Health 2015, 7(12), 1696-1702.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Andreae G, Scott S, Nguyen G, Bell Z, Mehmood H, Sermin-Reed L, Heslehurst N. . In: Public Health Science 2021. 2021, Online: The Lancet Publishing Group.
  • Nguyen TG, Aucott L, McNeill G, Douglas F. . In: Nutrition Society Summer Meeting: Improving Nutrition in Metropolitan Areas. 2017, London: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nguyen TG, Wallace J, Dick S. Breastfeeding and postpartum weight change: a systematic review. In: Joint meeting between the Nutrition Society and the Royal Society of Medicine, 11–12 December 2012. 2013, London: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.

• Review

  • Nguyen G, Boath A, Heslehurst N. . Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 2023, 82(3), 241-252.