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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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  • Body mass index, muscle strength and physical performance in older adults from eight cohort studies: the HALCyon programme

    Hardy, R., Cooper, R., Sayer, A. A., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Cooper, C., Deary, I. J., Demakakos, P., Gallacher, J., Martin, R. M., McNeill, G., Starr, J. M., Steptoe, A., Syddall, H., Kuh, D., HALCyon Study Team
    PloS ONE, vol. 8, no. 2, e56483
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Sustainable diets for the future: can we contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by eating a healthy diet? (vol 96, pg 632, 2012): Erratum

    Macdiarmid, J., Kyle, J., Horgan, G. W., Loe, J., Fyfe, C., Johnstone, A., McNeill, G.
    The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 449
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Folate in pregnancy and imprinted gene and repeat element methylation in the offspring

    Haggarty, P., Hoad, G., Campbell, D. M., Horgan, G. W., Piyathilake, C., McNeill, G.
    The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 94-99
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Assessment of Dietary Knowledge and Intake Among People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nepal

    Upreti, D., Kyle, J., Simkhada, P., Thoulass, J., McNeill, G.
    Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism, vol. 63, no. Suppl. 1, pp. 1374
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Children’s Food and Drink Purchasing Behaviour “Beyond the School Gate”: The Development of a Survey Module

    Wills, W., Macdiarmid, J. I., Masson, L. F., Bromley, C., Craig, L. C. A., McNeill, G.
    ISRN Nutrition, vol. 2013, 501450
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The influence of the food environment on overweight and obesity in young children: a systematic review

    Osei-Assibey, G., Dick, S., Macdiarmid, J., Semple, S., Reilly, J. J., Ellaway, A., Cowie, H., McNeill, G.
    BMJ Open, vol. 2, no. 6, e001538
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Sustainable diets for the future: can we contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by eating a healthy diet?

    Macdiarmid, J. I., Kyle, J., Horgan, G. W., Loe, J., Fyfe, C., Johnstone, A., McNeill, G.
    The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 96, no. 3, pp. 632-639
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Depressive symptoms and diet: their effects on prospective inflammation levels in the elderly

    Luciano, M., Mõttus, R., Starr, J. M., McNeill, G., Jia, X., Craig, L. C. A., Deary, I. J.
    Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 717-720
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The association of dietary intake of purine-rich vegetables, sugar-sweetened beverages and dairy with plasma urate, in a cross-sectional study

    Zgaga, L., Theodoratou, E., Kyle, J., Farrington, S. M., Agakov, F., Tenesa, A., Walker, M., McNeill, G., Wright, A. F., Rudan, I., Dunlop, M. G., Campbell, H.
    PloS ONE, vol. 7, no. 6, e38123
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Arterial dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and the consumption of daily fruits and daily vegetables

    Crilly, M. A., McNeill, G.
    European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 66, pp. 345-352
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Genetic contributions to stability and change in intelligence from childhood to old age

    Deary, I. J., Yang, J., Davies, G., Harris, S. E., Tenesa, A., Liewald, D., Luciano, M., Lopez, L. M., Gow, A. J., Corley, J., Redmond, P., Fox, H. C., Rowe, S. J., Haggarty, P., McNeill, G., Goddard, M. E., Porteous, D. J., Whalley, L. J., Starr, J. M., Visscher, P. M.
    Nature, vol. 482, no. 7384, pp. 212-215
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A Novel Dietary Intervention to Optimize Vitamin E Intake of Pregnant Women to 15 mg/Day

    Clark, J., Craig, L., McNeill, G., Smith, N., Norrie, J., Devereux, G.
    Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 297-301
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Accuracy of diet quality perception in Scottish adults

    Whybrow, S., Loe, J., Macdiarmid, J. I., Kyle, J., McNeil, G.
    Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 71, no. OCE3, E228
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Focus group discussions to inform the design of a weight loss programme suitable for overweight and obese women treated for breast cancer

    Newlands, R., Clark, J., Craig, L. C. A., McNeill, G., Hoddinott, P., Heys, S.
    Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 71, no. OCE1, E3
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • A survey to inform the design of a weight loss programme for overweight and obese women treated for breast cancer

    Newlands, R., Clark, J., Craig, L. C. A., McNeill, G., Hoddinott, P., Heys, S.
    Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 71, no. OCE1, pp. E4
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Current and planned research on agriculture for improved nutrition: A mapping and a gap analysis

    Hawkes, C., Turner, R., Waage, J., Ferguson, E., Johnston, D., Shankar, B., Haseen, F., Homans, H. Y., Hussein, J., Marais, D., McNeill, G.
    London International Development Centre. 51 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

  • Provision of a healthy weight maintenance programme for men treated for prostate cancer: a study of patients’ preferences

    Mohamad, H., Craig, L. C. A., Heys, S. D., McNeill, G., N'Dow, J., Clark, J.
    Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 71, no. OCE1, pp. E2
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Age and gender differences in physical capability levels from mid-life onwards: the harmonisation and meta-analysis of data from eight UK cohort studies

    Cooper, R., Hardy, R., Aihie Sayer, A., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Birnie, K., Cooper, C., Craig, L., Deary, I. J., Demakakos, P., Gallacher, J., McNeill, G., Martin, R. M., Starr, J. M., Steptoe, A., Kuh, D., HALCyon Study Team
    PloS ONE, vol. 6, no. 11, e27899
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

    Davies, G., Tenesa, A., Payton, A., Yang, J., Harris, S. E., Liewald, D., Ke, X., Le Hellard, S., Christoforou, A., Luciano, M., McGhee, K., Lopez, L., Gow, A. J., Corley, J., Redmond, P., Fox, H. C., Haggarty, P., Whalley, L. J., McNeill, G., Goddard, M. E., Espeseth, T., Lundervold, A. J., Reinvang, I., Pickles, A., Steen, V. M., Ollier, W., Porteous, D. J., Horan, M., Starr, J. M., Pendleton, N., Visscher, P. M., Deary, I. J.
    Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 996-1005
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • First- and second-trimester fetal size and asthma outcomes at age 10 years

    Turner, S., Prabhu, N., Danielian, P., McNeill, G., Craig, L., Allan, K., Cutts, R., Helms, P., Seaton, A., Devereux, G.
    American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 184, no. 4, pp. 407-413
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Diet, environmental factors, and lifestyle underlie the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in healthy adults in Scotland, and supplementation reduces the proportion that are severely deficient

    Zgaga, L., Theodoratou, E., Farrington, S. M., Agakov, F., Tenesa, A., Walker, M., Knox, S., Wallace, A. M., Cetnarskyj, R., McNeill, G., Kyle, J., Porteous, M. E., Dunlop, M. G., Campbell, H.
    The Journal of Nutrition, vol. 141, no. 8, pp. 1535-1542
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Flavonoid intake in relation to cognitive function in later life in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

    Butchart, C., Kyle, J., McNeill, G., Corley, J., Gow, A. J., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 141-148
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Antioxidant and B vitamin intake in relation to cognitive function in later life in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

    McNeill, G., Jia, X., Whalley, L. J., Fox, H. C., Corley, J., Gow, A. J., Brett, C. E., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J.
    European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 619-626
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Developing a timeline for evaluating public health nutrition policy interventions: What are the outcomes and when should we expect to see them?

    Macdiarmid, J. I., Loe, J., Douglas, F., Ludbrook, A., Comerford, C., McNeill, G.
    Public Health Nutrition, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 729-739
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Alcohol intake and cognitive abilities in old age: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 study

    Corley, J., Jia, X., Brett, C. E., Gow, A. J., Starr, J. M., Kyle, J. A. M., McNeill, G., Deary, I. J.
    Neuropsychology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 166-175
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 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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