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Dr. Bianca van der Westhuizen is a senior lecturer in Nutrition at the Department of Life and Consumer sciences, Unisa. She completed her Ph.D. in Nutrition at the Centre of Excellence for Nutrition (CEN), North West University.
She is currently conducting research in public health nutrition focusing on the obesogenic environment of South Africa and how that affects the non-communicable disease profile of the country. Other research interest includes knowledge translation and how to bridge the gap between research and decision makers in terms of public health nutrition related problems. Her goal is to make her research useful.
Ms Marieke Theron has been working as a lecturer of dietetic students since 2013 at leading universities like the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape. She received a merit award for her outstanding teaching and research in 2018 and is currently completing her PhD in public health.
Marieke is passionate about nutrition and population based health and has completed research in both correctional facilities and public hospitals in the Western Cape. She has been an advocate of the dietetics profession in South Africa and as such would like to assist the Nutrition Society of South Africa in their promotion of nutrition.
