Dr. Eirini Trichia

Biography

Eirini Trichia is a Senior Statistical Epidemiologist at the University of Oxford's Medical Sciences Division. Her work primarily focuses on the prediction of cardiovascular mortality, the associations between adiposity and cognition, and leveraging large-scale omics data to explore the relationships between adiposity and diabetes. She joined the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) in February 2020 as a Global Health Epidemiologist, where she investigates major risk factors for mortality and disease incidence in a global health context. Prior to her role at CTSU, Eirini was a research associate in nutritional epidemiology at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD from October 2015 to February 2019. Her doctoral research examined the associations between carbohydrate quality and dairy consumption concerning cardio-metabolic disease, incorporating aspects of nutritional and molecular genetic epidemiology. Eirini's academic background includes training in nutrition from the Department of Dietetics and Nutritional Science at Harokopio University of Athens and an MSc specialized in nutritional epidemiology and public health from Wageningen University, Netherlands. Additionally, she acquired research experience in epidemiology through her work at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Imperial College London, coordinated the Nutrition team for the Hellenic National Nutrition Health Survey in Greece, and contributed to a systematic review on the effectiveness of food regulation in schools with the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

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