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DrCatherine Phillips

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science

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  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science
  • 01 716 3451
  • University College Dublin, School of Public Health Physiotherapy and Sports Science, Woodview House Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Current research interests span the role of diet, lifestyle, biological, genetic and epigenetic factors in cardiometabolic health and disease across the life course, from pregnancy to older age. Currently I am investigating determinants of childhood, maternal, adult and inter-generational obesity (including sub-phenotypes such as metabolically healthy obesity) and cardiometabolic disease risk, with a particular focus on early life programming of childhood and adult health.

GRANTS

  • OTHER GRANT
    Personalised mHealth Maternal Nutritional Education for Equitable Nutritional Access and Improved Maternal and Offspring Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (AMEN)
    Research Ireland (SFI)1 Feb 2025 - 31 Jan 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    First 1000 days Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
    Health Research Board (HRB)1 Apr 2021 - 30 Sep 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phillips C
  • GRANT
    Predictors and associations of childhood dietary inflammation with obesity
    Biostime Institute for Nutrition & Care (Binc)1 Apr 2021 - 31 Dec 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phillips C
  • GRANT
    Contribution of diet and lifestyle factors and metabolic phenotype to cancer risk in the Irish population: a prospective investigation in middle-to-older aged adults.
    Breakthrough Cancer Research1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
  • GRANT
    Early life programming of childhood health: a nutritional and epigenetic investigation of adiposity and bone cardiometabolic neurodevelopmental and respiratory health (ALPHABET)
    Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)1 Jan 2017 - 30 Nov 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phillips C
  • GRANT
    HRB Centre for Diet and Health Research
    Health Research Board (Ireland)1 Jan 2014
  • GRANT
    Lipoprotein profiles and cardiometabolic health
    1 Sep 2012 - 1 Sep 2019
    Research collaboration
  • GRANT
    Does physical activity modulate the pro-atherogenic effects of obesity and insulin resistance on lipoprotein particle number and size?
    Irish Heart Foundation1 Sep 2011 - 31 Aug 2013