DrSarah Browne

Dr. Sarah Browne is a CORU registered dietitian and assistant professor in clinical nutrition and dietetics.  Sarah began her career working as a community dietitian with the HSE where she delivered primary care dietetic services for chronic disease management and malnutrition. Sarah also worked in private practice for several years, where she continued clinics and developed community healthy promotion work, specialising in youth programmes and education. 

Sarah has worked with children and adolescents in practice and research and promotes collaborative, participatory approaches in this work. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2017 at Dublin City University, using participatory methods with teenagers to understand diet and physical activity behaviours in the secondary school setting in Ireland. She also spent time undertaking clinical research with children and teenagers in treatment for obesity with the Obesity Research and Care Group at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Children's Health Ireland, Temple St., Dublin before joining UCD in 2018.  

Sarah integrates sustainable food systems into research, education, and outreach work in the areas of diet, nutrition and health and the systems influencing these.  She is actively engaged with an international research group to progress sustainable food systems on the third level curriculum to prepare nutrition and dietetics graduates for complex food system and healthcare challenges.  Education across healthcare professional programmes in obesity care is also a focus of her teaching and learning research.    

Sarah is an active committee member on the Association for the Study of Obesity on the island of Ireland (ASOI), a member of the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute, and the Climate and Health Alliance Ireland.