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Professor Geraldine McNeill
Professor Geraldine McNeill
Professor Geraldine McNeill

MB ChB, MSc, PhD, RNutr (Public Health), FAfN

Emeritus Professor

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Email Address
g.mcneill@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

Polwarth Building 1:069, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Geraldine's interest in Nutrition was aroused during higher education in Medicine and Physical Anthropology at the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham and a year spent as a volunteer with Save the Children Fund on a Mother and Child health and nutrition project in Burkina Faso, W. Africa. She undertook an MSc in Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine followed by a PhD project on socio-economic and seasonal patterns of energy intake and expenditure in adults in rural S. India. In 1986 she moved to Aberdeen, Scotland, to establish a Human Nutrition Unit at the Rowett Research Institute. Since then she has worked in nutrition research and training at the Rowett Institute and University of Aberdeen, focussing on dietary assessment and relationships between diet and health outcomes ranging from obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer and cognitive decline in adults and obesity, asthma and dental disease in children. She was lead for obesity in the Scottish School of Public Health Research, a 2-year collaboration between academics, practitioners and policy-makers.

Geraldine is author of over 125 peer-reviewed papers (Scopus H-index 37) and a number of peer-reviewed research reports. She was coordinator of the MSc Human Nutrition and Metabolism programme at the University of Aberdeen from 1991-2000 and has supervised or co-supervised 18 PhD theses to completion. From 2008-14 she led the Public Health Nutrition research group in the University of Aberdeen. She has been a member of research ethics committees, journal editorial boards, research grant funding panels and government advisory committees. In 2014 she took early retirement but continues to work part time as an Emeritus professor.

In 2015 Geraldine was elected to the Council of the Association for Nutrition (AfN) and currently chairs the AfN Registration Committee. She also advises the Scottish Centre for Social Research on dietary aspects of the Scottish Health Survey.

Publications

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  • Livewell: a balance of healthy and sustainable food choices

    Macdiarmid, J. I., Kyle, J., Horgan, G. W., Loe, J. E., Fyfe, C., Johnstone, A., McNeill, G.
    World Wildlife Fund UK. 64 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

  • Sugar intake and dental decay: results from a national survey of children in Scotland

    Masson, L. F., Blackburn, A., Sheehy, C., Craig, L. C. A., Macdiarmid, J. I., Holmes, B. A., McNeill, G.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 104, no. 10, pp. 1555-1564
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Using evidence to prioritise areas for public health actions for tackling childhood overweight

    McNeill, G., Osei-Assibey, G., Dick, S., Macdiarmid, J., Semple, S., Reilly, J., Ellaway, A., Cowie, H.
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 64, no. Suppl. 1, pp. A46
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Sugar and fat intake among children in Scotland: what is needed to reach the dietary targets?

    McNeill, G., Masson, L. F., Craig, L. C., Macdiarmid, J. I., Holmes, B. A., Nelson, M., Sheehy, C.
    Public Health Nutrition, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1286–1294
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Chemical transmission through the food chain

    Kyle, J., McNeill, G.
    Environmental Medicine. Ayres, J., Harrison, R., Nichols, G., Maynard, R. (eds.). Hodder Arnold, pp. 259-275, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Associations between fetal size, maternal α-tocopherol and childhood asthma

    Turner, S. W., Campbell, D., Smith, N., Craig, L. C. A., McNeill, G., Forbes, S. H., Harbour, P. J., Seaton, A., Helms, P. J., Devereux, G. S.
    Thorax, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 391-397
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A case-control study of vitamin D status and asthma in adults

    Devereux, G., Wilson, A., Avenell, A., McNeill, G., Fraser, W. D.
    Allergy, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 666-667
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Obesity case study

    McNeill, G., Osei-Assibey, G., Dick, S., Macdiarmid, J., Semple, S., Reilly, J. J., Ellaway, A., Cowie, H.
    Environmental Determinants of Public Health in Scotland (EDPHiS). 95 pages
    Books and Reports: Other Reports

  • Dietary flavonoid intake and colorectal cancer: a case-control study

    Kyle, J., Sharp, L., Little, J., Duthie, G. G., McNeill, G.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 429-436
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Dietary patterns of school-age children in Scotland: association with socio-economic indicators, physical activity and obesity

    Craig, L. C. A., McNeill, G., Macdiarmid, J. I., Masson, L. F., Holmes, B. A.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 319-334
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Caffeine consumption and cognitive function at age 70: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 study

    Corley, J., Jia, X., Kyle, J. A. M., Gow, A. J., Brett, C. E., Starr, J. M., McNeill, G., Deary, I. J.
    Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 206-214
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Can optimisation of dietary vitamin E intake by pregnant women reduce the risk of asthma in their children?: A feasibility study

    Clark, J., Craig, L. C. A., McNeill, G., Devereux, G.
    Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 69, no. OCE6, pp. E486
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Views of parents on routine measurements of children’s growth in schools

    Craig, L. C. A., Clark, J., McNeill, G.
    Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 69, no. OCE6, pp. E444
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Diet and deprivation in pregnancy

    Haggarty, P., Campbell, D. M., Duthie, S., Andrews, K., Hoad, G., Piyathilake, C., McNeill, G.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 1487-1497
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Changes in the prevalence of asthma, eczema and hay fever in pre-pubertal children: a 40-year perspective

    McNeill, G., Tagiyeva, N., Aucott, L. S., Russell, G., Helms, P. J. B.
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 506-512
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Meal and snacking patterns of school-aged children in Scotland

    Macdiarmid, J. I., Loe, J. E., Craig, L. C. A., Masson, L. F., Holmes, B., McNeill, G.
    European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 1297-1304
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Food frequency questionnaires vs diet diaries

    McNeill, G., Masson, L. F., MacDonald, H. M., Haggarty, P., Macdiarmid, J. I., Craig, L. C. A., Kyle, J.
    International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 884
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • A novel online food recall checklist for use in an undergraduate student population: a comparison with diet diaries

    Comrie, F., Masson, L. F., McNeill, G.
    Nutrition Journal, vol. 8, 13
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Diet and cognitive function in later life: a challenge for nutrition epidemiology

    McNeill, G., Winter, J., Jia, X.
    European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 63, no. S1, pp. S33-S37
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Sugar and fat intake among children in Scotland: what is needed to reach the dietary targets?

    McNeill, G., Macdiarmid, J. I., Craig, L. C. A., Masson, L. F.
    Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism, vol. 55, no. Suppl. 1, pp. 521-521
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Repeatability and validity of a food frequency questionnaire in free-living older people in relation to cognitive function

    Jia, X., Craig, L. C. A., Aucott, L. S., Milne, A. C., McNeill, G.
    Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 735-741
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Modification of the inverse association between dietary vitamin D intake and colorectal cancer risk by a FokI variant supports a chemoprotective action of Vitamin D intake mediated through VDR binding

    Theodoratou, E., Farrington, S. M., Tenesa, A., McNeill, G., Cetnarskyj, R., Barnetson, R. A., Porteous, M. E., Dunlop, M. G., Campbell, H.
    International Journal of Cancer, vol. 123, no. 9, pp. 2170-2179
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Overweight and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in 4- to 18-Year-Olds

    Craig, L. C. A., Love, J., Ratcliffe, B., McNeill, G.
    Obesity Facts, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 237-242
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Modification of the associations between lifestyle, dietary factors and colorectal cancer risk by APC variants

    Theodoratou, E., Campbell, H., Tenesa, A., McNeill, G., Cetnarskyj, R., Barnetson, R. A., Porteous, M. E., Dunlop, M. G., Farrington, S. M.
    Carcinogenesis, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1774-1780
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Folic acid use in pregnancy and embryo selection

    Haggarty, P., Campbell, D., Duthie, S., Andrews, K., Hoad, G., Piyathilake, C., Fraser, I., McNeill, G.
    BJOG-An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, vol. 115, no. 7, pp. 851-856
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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