Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
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Joane Matta

Biography

Joane Matta is an assistant professor and the head of the Nutrition department at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at USEK. She has obtained her PhD in Nutrition from McGill University and her thesis was about the loss of muscle mass and the development of insulin resistance in elderly subjects. Her research is focused on diabetes and insulin resistance as well as metabolically healthy obesity. She also went for a postdoctoral fellowship in France at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and underwent research in nutritional epidemiology focused on obesity and diabetes in population-based cohorts. She is now affiliated to INSERM at the unit where she did her postdoc. She is a member of the committee of the Lebanese National Exam in Nutrition. She has published several abstracts and papers in the field of nutrition and diseases

Research Interest

Lebanese women; Low socioeconomic; Crowding index; Food security; Eating behaviour; Awareness

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