Professor Demetre Labadarios is the Executive Director of the Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation (PHHSI) research programme.
Prior to his current position, Prof Labadarios was the Head of the Department of Human Nutrition of the University of Stellenbosch, the founder and Director of the Nutrition Information Centre at the University of Stellenbosch (NICUS), the Director of the African Micronutrient Research Group at the University of Stellenbosch and the Director of the Nutrition Support Team at the Tygerberg Academic Hospital in the Western Cape Province.>/p>
He completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies in Nutrition/Biochemistry at the University of Surrey, England, and his medical studies at the University of Stellenbosch with distinctions in Pharmacology, Microbiology/Immunology as well as in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
His interests centre on national surveys, social determinants of health and nutrition, nutrition training, nutrition support, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and nutrient requirements as altered by disease and the environment. He is the author/co-author of more than 250 scientific publications. Prof Labadarios has also co-authored the books"Pocket Manual of Clinical Nutrition, Recent Advances in Clinical Nutrition and the Epidemiology of Nutritional Diseases in Greece and Clinical Nutrition: Early intervention He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the African Editor of Nutrition: The International Journal of Nutritional Sciences, the President of the South African Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Honorary Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Limpopo, reviewer for a number of national and international peer reviewed Journals, and an elected Fellow of the American College of Nutrition.
He has established collaborative networks with Angola, Swaziland, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zambia, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin, Zimbambwe, Liberia, Eritrea, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Algiers and Botswana and has extended expertise and facilities to these countries for the completion of nutrition research related national surveys. He has also served as a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations? Children Fund (UNICEF) and International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) of the United Nations, and provided technical support to national surveys sponsored by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) |
