PhD Student

Nutritional Epidemiology

Current work and interests

Divya is a PhD student in the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, under the supervision of Professor Nita Forouhi.

Background and experience

Divya joined the Unit in October 2017 and worked on the Community food Production and Health project as a member of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme. She left the Unit in February 2018, before returning in November 2018 to join the Global Public Health Research team led by Dr Nigel Unwin. as a Research Assistant.

Divya has completed her MSc in Nutrition for Global Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her dissertation looked at the relationship between place of residence and health markers in the Indian population. She has her Bachelors degree in Dietetics from SNDT University (Mumbai – India).