Biography

Dietitian and research assistant working in Community Oriented Primary care clinics, since 2017. Interest in diet diversity, food security, and growth monitoring in children under 5 years and pregnant women. Advocate for Breastfeeding promotion protection and support. Interested in making access to healthy diet affordable for all. 

Worked on a project titled "Mdantsane for Vitamin A" in collaboration with the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), American Education Department (AED) and University of Western Cape to promote vitamin A uptake in the community through social mobilization (2004). Research field worker in a Vitamin A survey (1999). Food consumption survey (2005). Fieldworker in a project titled "Food insecurity among students living with HIV: Strengthening safety nets at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. (Steenkamp, Goosen, Venter and Beeforth.2016)".

Discipline

Community nutrition, Medical nutrition therapy and Food Service management.

Research description

 Currently involved in a research project titled: Sustainable Food System: An interdisciplinary study on food cultivation and production model for residents of the Cemetery View informal settlement in Pretoria East, Gauteng. (Meyer, 2021, UP) and M Dietetics. Nutritional status, diet diversity, food insecurity, and lifestyle factors of pregnant women at Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) sites in Pretoria East, 2021 at Nelson Mandela Metropole University.