Dr. Stefanie Vandevijvere 
Co-Investigator
Scientific Institute of Public Health (Sciensano), Belgium

Dr Stefanie Vandevijvere is a Senior Public Health Nutrition Scientist at the Scientific Institute of Public Health (Sciensano) in Belgium. Her research focuses on nutrition policies for obesity prevention globally.

Her work aims to support the development and implementation of policies to effectively and equitably improve the quality of population diets.

In particular, she has an interest in the role of food environments in determining people’s dietary habits and how to hold governments and food businesses to account for their actions to create healthy food environments to effectively reduce obesity.