Staff Profile
Dr Gina Nguyen
Research Associate
- Email: giang.nguyen@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Baddiley Clark Building,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4BN
I am a member of the Population Health Sciences Institute and work across a number of research themes:
- Reproduction, Development and Child Health
- Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism
- Public Health and Health Inequalities
My current research focuses on maternal obesity and pregnancy outcomes. I am working with Dr Nicola Heslehurst on the NIHR funded research programme on adiposity risk in pregnancy. The research programme aims to identify alternative measures of adiposity that are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes which may predict risk better than BMI and to develop the prognostic model of adiposity measures and other factors to predict which pregnant women require high-risk NHS maternity care. More information of the SHAPES research programme can be found here: SHAPES | SHAPES | Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)
Qualifications
PhD in Human Nutrition, the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
MSc in Public Health Nutrition, the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
BSc in Nursing, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
2021- present: "Study of How Adiposity in Pregnancy has an Effect on outcomeS (SHAPES)" (Newcastle University, UK)
2020-2021: “Effect of livestock farming on the consumption of animal-source foods and the nutritional status of children and women in low and middle-income settings” (the University of Edinburgh and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))
2021: "Assessing nutritional status, eating disturbance issues and to propose nutritional care interventions for patients with dementia in Vietnam”. (VAN program, Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, University of California, Davis/National Geriatric Hospital of Vietnam)
2021: "Violence against women and children as an impact of COVID19 crisis”. (UNICEF, Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University).
Nov 2015- Nov 2019: "Measurement of household food insecurity in the United Kingdom"-PhD research project (University of Aberdeen, UK)
2015: "Strategies for tackling the double burden of malnutrition: application of Japanese experience in Vietnam" (National Institute of Health & Nutrition (NIHN) Research Fellow Award, Tokyo, Japan).
2013-2015: “The Effects of Climate Change and Prevalence of Non- Infectious and Infectious Diseases in 8 Provinces of Vietnam” (Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam).
2012: "Breastfeeding and postpartum weight change: a systematic review" (MSc research disertation project, University of Aberdeen, UK)
MPH student project supervisor: "Exploring food insecurity among pregnant women living in high-income countries: a mixed methods systematic review"
2013-2021: Lecturer in Nutrition at Hanoi Medical University
2019-2021: Guest lecturer for an MSc Global Food Security& Nutrition course at the University of Edinburgh, UK
- Heslehurst N, Ngongalah L, Bigirumurame T, Nguyen TG, Odeniyi A, Flynn A, Smith V, Crowe L, Skidmore B, Gaudet L, Simon A, Hayes L. Association between maternal adiposity measures and adverse maternal outcomes of pregnancy: systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews 2022, 23(7), e13449.
- Dang KA, Nguyen TG, Mamun AA, Do NK, Nguyen TLH, Thai PK, Phung D. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its related factors among Vietnamese people: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews 2022, 16(4), 102477.
- Zerfu T, Nguyen TG, Duncan A, Baltenweck I, Brown F, Iannoti L, McNeill G. The effect of livestock keeping on morbidity and nutritional status of children and women in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review. Nutrition Research Reviews 2023, epub ahead of print.
- Nguyen TG, Aucott L, McNeill G, Douglas F. Identifying a potential tool to measure household food insecurity in the UK: a systematic review. In: Nutrition Society Summer Meeting: Improving Nutrition in Metropolitan Areas. 2017, London: Cambridge University Press.
- Le TH, Le PH, Nguyen HT, Nguyen TG, Le TTX, Nguyen TKC, Vu TTN. Changes of Food Expenditure and Food Consumption of People Living in Ba Vi District, Hanoi, Vietnam from 1999 to 2013. Health 2015, 7(12), 1696-1702.
- Nguyen TG, Wallace J, Dick S. Breastfeeding and postpartum weight change: a systematic review. In: Joint meeting between the Nutrition Society and the Royal Society of Medicine, 11–12 December 2012. 2013, London: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.