Personale docente

Francesca Scazzina is Associate Professor of Human Nutrition at the Department of Food and Drug Sciences, University of Parma (SSD BIOS-06/A - Physiology). 

Since 2009, she has been involved in nutrition education projects carried out in primary schools, and in this context she has gained in-depth experience in educational health programmes and surveys on the child population. 

She is co-founder and Scientific Coordinator of Madegus srl Impresa Sociale, an academic spin-off of the University of Parma focused on the development of specific strategies and educational tools to improve nutritional knowledge, eating habits and lifestyle. 

On this topic she is involved in PRIMA projects - Med4Youth_ Mediterranean Enriched Diet for tackling Youth Obesity; PROMEDLIFE_ PROmotion of MEDiterranean LIFEstyle and healthy diet; SWITCHtoHEALTHY_ Switching Mediterranean consumers to Mediterranean sustainable healthy dietary patterns.

She works in the field of food sustainability and in this field he collaborated in the EU Horizon 2020 project STRENGTH2FOOD_ Food Quality for Sustainability and Health.  

She works on the 'Pappa di Parma' project, which consists of optimising different recipes developed on the basis of food availability, nutritional needs, technological accessibility and sensory acceptance, in countries where chronic malnutrition is the main cause of child death, in Rwanda, Senegal and Tanzania.

She participates in the ONFOODS project ""Models for sustainable nutrition"- Partnership 10 of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) prepared by the Italian Government within the framework of the Next Generation EUcome programme - contact person for UNIPR of Spoke 7 "Policy, behaviour and education".

She is a member of the Governing Council of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU), as well as collaborating in the SINU-SCOLA working group for the Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions.

She is Senior Collaborator of The Need for Nutrition Education/Innovation Programme (NNEdPro, Cambridge Foundation, Cambridge, UK.

She is a member of the Environment and health section of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA).

Related to the above-mentioned projects and activities, she is co-author of scientific publications; the full list of publications is at the following links:

Google scholar citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=g_X1-EgAAAAJ&hl

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57195937224

ResearcherId:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8466-2011

ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5372-8658