World Food Day - Lifelong Wellbeing event


We are pleased to invite staff and students to our Lifelong Wellbeing online event on Friday 15 October at 12.30pm, to mark World Food Day.

This event is part of a series of online lectures to tie in with world awareness days.

It will be chaired by Professor Parvez Haris, Professor of Biomedical Science at DMU, who will open with a talk about "The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on food consumption around the world".

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Following this talk, Professor Haris will introduce discussions from the following speakers: 

Dr Harprit Singh, Associate Professor / Reader in Vascular Biology within the Leicester School of Allied Health Sciences – "Elderberry extract: A supplement or medication for vascular health".

Dr Hillary Shaw, a visiting research fellow in the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity at DMU – "Obesity, Covid-19 and Poverty: Geotracking the Real Killers".

Kshama Joshi, a current PhD student working under the supervision of Professor Parvez Haris at DMU – "Personalised food intake for the management and prevention of T2DM".

Posted on Tuesday 12 October 2021

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