Clíona Ní Mhurchú | |
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| Born | Dublin |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | population nutrition |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
| Thesis | |
Clíona Ní Mhurchú is a New Zealand population nutrition academic, she is currently a professor at the University of Auckland and Nutrition Lead at the National Institute for Health Innovation.
Career
After training at Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the University of Southampton entitled 'Effectiveness of motivational interviewing in dietary education for people with hyperlipidaemia' , Ní Mhurchú stated work at the University of Auckland where she rose to full professor.
In 1999-02 and 2010–13 Ní Mhurchú received funding from the Heart Foundation of New Zealand and she is on a number of national and international technical advisory groups.
Her research regularly gets covered in the mainstream New Zealand press.
Selected works
- Anderson, Craig; Sally Rubenach; Cliona Ni Mhurchu; Michael Clark; Carol Spencer, and Adrian Winsor. "Home or hospital for stroke rehabilitation? Results of a randomized controlled trial." Stroke 31, no. 5 (2000): 1024–1031.
- James, W. Philip T., Rachel Jackson-Leach, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Eleni Kalamara, Maryam Shayeghi, Neville J. Rigby, Chizuru Nishida, and Anthony Rodgers. "Overweight and obesity (high body mass index)." Comparative quantification of health risks: global and regional burden of disease attribution to selected major risk factors 1 (2004): 497–596.
- Maddison, Ralph, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Andrew Jull, Yannan Jiang, Harry Prapavessis, and Anthony Rodgers. "Energy expended playing video console games: an opportunity to increase children’s physical activity?." Pediatric exercise science 19, no. 3 (2007): 334–343.
- Utter, Jennifer, Robert Scragg, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, and David Schaaf. "At-home breakfast consumption among New Zealand children: associations with body mass index and related nutrition behaviors." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 107, no. 4 (2007): 570–576.
- Maddison, Ralph, Louise Foley, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Yannan Jiang, Andrew Jull, Harry Prapavessis, Maea Hohepa, and Anthony Rodgers. "Effects of active video games on body composition: a randomized controlled trial." The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 94, no. 1 (2011): 156–163.
