Coosje Dijkstra

Coosje Dijkstra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health sciences, section Youth and Lifestyle at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute. She is trained as a nutritionist and epidemiologist. Dijkstra is working on different research projects aiming to decrease socioeconomic inequalities in (childhood) obesity where she applies a systems lens by studying micro-, meso- and macro-systems. Her projects are always interdisciplinary, where not only different researchers and methods are used, but also children and key stakeholders act as co-creators and actively participate in the development, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of the projects.