Nutritional Epidemiology

Has now left the Unit

Work and interests

Saman was a visiting PhD student within the Nutritional Epidemiology programme. She is a recipient of Doc.Mobility fellowship from Swiss National Foundation. Her project investigated associations of dietary consumption with health status of the liver by conducting epidemiological analysis of datasets from two population-based cohorts in the United Kingdom (Fenland Study) and Switzerland (CoLaus study), supervised by Dr Nita Forouhi and Dr Imaruma Fumiaki.

Saman was a Ph.D. student in Life Science at the Lausanne University Hospital, along with the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+). Prior to joining the MRC Epidemiology Unit, her project mainly focused on undernutrition prevalence and its determinants among hospitalised patients.

Publications

• MRC Epidemiology Unit publications on the Publications Database
• Profile on ResearchGate

Selected publications

1. de Mestral C, Khalatbari-Soltani S, Stringhini S, Marques-Vidal P. Fifteen-year trends in the prevalence of barriers to healthy eating in a high-income country. Am J Clin Nutr. 2017 Mar;105(3):660–8
2. Khalatbari-Soltani S, Marques-Vidal P. Impact of nutritional risk screening in hospitalized patients on management, outcome and costs: A retrospective study. Clin Nutr. 2016/03/12. 2016;35(6):1340–6

Selected awards

1. 2017, Doc.Mobility fellowship, awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
2. Sep 2016, Travel Award, the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.