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She graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics and her PhD. She worked as a dietitian in Ireland and the UK before moving to Australia where she was a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University. During that time, she held two prestigious Australian National Fellowships and Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian status, which fewer than 1% of Australian dietitians hold. Now working at UCD, Sharleen is an active member of the UCD Institute of Food and Health and UCD Perinatal Research Centre. Her current research interests lie in research translation and how chronic disease prevention and management can be better implemented in the real world. Sharleen was awarded Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute 'Research Dietitian of the Year' in 2019. She works at the interface of research, teaching and practice in public health nutrition. She is an investigator on over €7M active research funding at present and currently leads a €4.4M EU Horizon2020 and Australian National Health and Medical Research Council implementation project looking to improve mother and baby health in the first 1000 days. In addition, Sharleen holds an Adjunct Professor position at the Public Health Foundation of India and Adjunct Senior Clinical Lecturer at Deakin University in Australia. She is the Programme Director for the BSc Human Nutrition at UCD and a member of the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians Research and Evidence-Based Practice Committee as well as the Nutrition Society (Irish Section) Committee.

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