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Dr Elaine McCarthy 

Bio: Dr Elaine McCarthy is a Lecturer in Nutrition at the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, where she teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on core nutrition topics including energy and nutrient metabolism, lifecycle nutrition, nutritional assessment and performance nutrition. She is a Lead Investigator at the INFANT Research Centre (https://www.infantcentre.ie/) and a Principal Investigator at the Cork Centre for Vitamin D and Nutrition Research.

Elaine’s research to date has been mainly in the field of maternal and paediatric nutrition, with a particular interest in the role of micronutrients, especially iron, in brain function and development in term and preterm infants. Her other main interest has been in the area of nutritional biomarker research, focusing on nutritional status diagnostic criteria and screening in vulnerable population groups. In 2020, she was awarded a prestigious Applying Research into Policy and Practice Fellowship from the Health Research Board in Ireland to develop a screening strategy for iron deficiency in pregnant women and infants. 

Link to researcher profile:

https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/D018/elaine.mccarthy@ucc.ie· 

PG Researcher - Aritra Sinha

PD Researcher - Dr Conor Carey