Dr. ir. Coosje Dijkstra

Coosje Dijkstra is a nutritionist and epidemiologist and she works as assistant professor Prevention and Public Health Nutrition at Amsterdam UMC. Coosje her core interest lies within the design, implementation and evaluation of (participatory) system dynamic approaches to help to address non communicable diseases (such as obesity) and socioeconomic inequalities. She collaborate extensively with both local and national policymakers to guarantee that the research being conducted, along with its outcomes, can be effectively integrated into decision-making procedures into practice.

Coosje is involved in different large scale system dynamics studies including LIKE, Food4Smiles and Eten op school. Her current research is predominantly focused on the transition from systems thinking theories into actual implementation of these theories in practice.