
美国纽约市哥伦比亚大学教育学院终身教授,教师学院营养系系主任。
营养教育和行为学会理事会主席
Director of the
Program in Nutrition at Teachers College Columbia University
President of Board
of Trustees,Society for Nutrition Education and
Behavior
美国哥伦比亚大学终身教授,教师学院营养系主任。她是《营养教育》教材(Nutrition Education: Linking Theory to Practice)的作者,是营养教育和行为学会的理事会主席(Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior)。她长期从事营养教育的教学和科学研究工作,在许多国家和专业协会教授营养教育,她是联合国粮农组织的专家顾问,目前正制定营养教育发展指南,并与国际各组织合作开展针对中、低收入国家的营养教育项目。
Isobel Contento, Ph.D., CDN is Professor of Nutrition
and Education, and Director of the Program in Nutrition at Teachers College
Columbia University. Her recent research
has involved the development and evaluation of interventions to improve health
and reduce risk of overweight in youth that focuses on behavior change. She has
written a textbook on how to use to psychosocial theory and research evidence
to design nutrition education programs for a variety of populations to motivate
and facilitate behavior change and provide environmental supports for change.
She has received research grants from several US agencies and has published
many articles. She has been a member of several national advisory committees in
the US and is part of the team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations on developing guidelines for Nutrition Education in Low and
Medium Income Countries.She has also been active in the Society for Nutrition
Education and Behavior for many years, serving on various committees and
currently she is the President of its Board of Trustees. She is the recipient
of that society’s Excellence in Nutrition Education Award. She has made
presentations and led workshops in countries such as Mexico, Malaysia, El
Salvador, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, and Portugal.