Member Information
Email: ann.prentice@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Role: Group leader
Department: MRC Nutrition and Bone Health Research Group
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Expertise: Endocrinology, Pathophysiology, Policy, Public Health, Research synthesis
Interests: Africa, Ageing, Asia, Development/Growth, Disability, Environmental determinants of health, Equality/inequality, Ethnic minorities, Gender, Global Health, Maternal and child health, Metabolism, Non-communicable disease, Nutrition, Reproduction/fertility, Risk, Well-being
Research Summary
• Optimal nutritional status and nutritional vulnerability in relation to health
• Nutritional aspects of bone health, peak bone mass, osteoporosis and rickets
• Calcium and vitamin D requirements across the life span and across populations
• Human calcium and bone physiology, metabolism and genetics
• Dietary requirements for human growth, pregnancy and lactation
• Human lactational physiology and breast-milk composition
• Nutritional problems of the developing world
• Nutrition of the elderly, with particular reference to micronutrients
• Functional and biochemical markers of micronutrient status
