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Catarina Carvalho licenciou-se em Ciências da Nutrição pela Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto (FCNAUP), em 2015. Em 2018 obteve o grau de mestre em Tecnologia e Ciência Alimentar pela Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho e pela Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto. Integra desde 2018 a equipa de investigação do Instituto de Saúde Pública e da Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto em vários projetos nacionais e internacionais.Atualmente frequenta o programa doutoral em Saúde Pública da FMUP com uma bolsa individual de doutoramento da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/146078/2019). As suas áreas de interesse em investigação relacionam-se com a avaliação da ingestão alimentar e nutricional, avaliação de risco-benefício associada ao consumo de alimentos e sustentabilidade ambiental da dieta. Catarina integra a equipa do laboratório Food, Consumption and Sustainability do ITR.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Catarina Moreira de Carvalho

Citation names

  • Carvalho, Catarina
  • Carvalho, C

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5915-D9B9-3C01
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1790-7421

Email addresses

  • catarinacarvalho@fcna.up.pt (Professional)
  • catarina.carvalho@ispup.up.pt (Professional)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09/17 - 2023/09/30
Ongoing
 Saúde Pública (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2016/09 - 2018/07
Concluded
 Tecnologia e Ciência Alimentar (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Cerveja artesanal Sovina: estudo de flavour e harmonizações com alimentos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2011/09 - 2015/09
Concluded
 Ciências da Nutrição (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal
"Aplicação e utilidade de bases de dados de compostos voláteis de alimentos em investigação e desenvolvimento" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/02 - Current Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/08/01 - 2023/12/28 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/10/01 - Current Public Health Risk-Benefit Assessment of Foods: a comprehensive approach integrating health and sustainability
SFRH/BD/146078/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/06 - 2019/09/30 RiskBenefit4EU - Partnering to strengthen the risk-benefit assessment within EU using a holistic approach
GA/EFSA/AFSCO/2017/01 – GA02
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação em Epidemiologia, Portugal
European Food Safety Authority
Concluded
2018 - 2019/09/30 Dose-response relationships in health risk assessment of nutritional and toxicological factors in food: development and application of novel biostatistical methods
GA/EFSA/ AFSCO/2017/01 – GA09
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação em Epidemiologia, Portugal
European Food Safety Authority
Concluded
2018/06 - 2019/09 RiskBenefit4EU - Partnering to strengthen the risk-benefit assessment within EU using a holistic approach
GA/EFSA/AFSCO/2017/01 GA02
 European Food Safety Authority
2018 - 2019/09 Dose-response relationships in health risk assessment of nutritional and toxicological factors in food: development and application of novel biostatistical methods
GA/EFSA/ AFSCO/2017/01 GA09
 European Food Safety Authority
2018/01 - 2018/07 Inquérito Alimentar Nacional e de Atividade Física 2015-2016 (IAN-AF 2015-2016)
EEA Grants Program - Public Health Initiatives (PT06- 000088SI3)
Research Fellow
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01 - 2023/12 ERA EU Menu - Evaluation and Development of Methods and tools for the preparation of the Next Round of National Dietary Surveys
GP/EFSA/DATA/2021/03
Researcher
European Food Safety Authority
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2020/07 - Current SYSTEMIC - An integrated approach to the challenge of sustainable food systems: adaptive and mitigatory strategies to address climate change and malnutrition
696295
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
 Joint Programming Initiative A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Duarte P. M. Torres; Costa, Sofia Almeida; Carvalho, Catarina; Vilela, Sofia; Daniela Correia; Marta Costa; Ana Rita Marinho; et al. Exposição a aditivos e contaminantes alimentares em Portugal: Avaliação de risco e dicas de mitigação. Portugal: Universidade do Porto. Instituto de Saúde Pública. 2022.
    Published
  2. Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação; Faculdade de Medicina. National Food, Nutrition, and Physical Activity Survey of the Portuguese General Population 2015-2016: Summary of Results. Portugal. 2018.
  3. Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação; Faculdade de Medicina. Inquérito Alimentar Nacional e de Atividade Física, IAN-AF 2015-2016: Manual Fotográfico de Quantificação de Alimentos. Portugal. 2017.
Conference abstract
  1. Costa, Sofia Almeida; Carvalho, Catarina; Correia, Daniela; Torres, Duarte; Lopes, Carla. "Development of a new tool to assess diet variety: a Foodex2-based approach. Gaceta Sanitaria, Vol 37, pp 111, S206, 2023.". Paper presented in XLI Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE)/ XVIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE), 2023.
    Published
  2. Costa, Sofia Almeida; Correia, Daniela; Magalhães, Vânia; Carvalho, Catarina; Vilela, Sofia; Cunha, Sara; Casal, Susana; Lopes, Carla; Duarte Torres. "Estimation of Portuguese population dietary exposure to Bisphenol A. Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição, Volume 26, pp. 115, 2021". Paper presented in XX Congresso de Nutrição e Alimentação/ II International Congress of Food and Nutrition, 2021.
    Published
  3. Carvalho, C; Correia, D; Severo, M; Afonso, C; Bandarra, NM; Goncalves, S; Lourenco, HM; et al. "Quantitative risk-benefit assessment of fish and seafood consumption scenarios to support recommendations". 2021.
    10.1093/ije/dyab168.113
  4. Costa, Sofia Almeida; Carvalho, Catarina; Vilela, Sofia; Correia, Daniela; Lopes, Carla; Duarte Torres. "Estimation of dietary exposure to acrylamide of the Portuguese population, Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição, Volume 22, pp 84, 2020". Paper presented in XIX Congresso de Nutrição e Alimentação, 2020.
    Published
  5. Assunção, Ricardo; Jakobsen, Lea S.; Alvito, Paula; Carmona, Paulo; Carvalho, Catarina; Lopes, Carla; Martins, Carla; et al. "Risks vs Benefits of nuts consumption in Portugal: the balance between preventable myocardial infarctions and the burden of the liver cancer associated to aflatoxin exposure". Paper presented in 41st Mycotoxin Workshop Lisbon 2019, Lisboa, 2019.
    Published
  6. Carvalho, Catarina; Correia, Daniela; Boué, Géraldine; Assunção, Ricardo; Alvito, Paula; Lopes, Carla; Torres, Duarte. "Cereal-based products consumption and sodium intake among Portuguese infants and young children". Paper presented in XVIII Congresso de Nutrição e Alimentação, Porto, 2019.
    Published
  7. Assunção, R; Jakobsen, L.; Alvito, P.; Carmona, P.; Carvalho, C; Martins, C.; Monteiro, S.; et al. "Risks versus benefits of nuts' consumption in Portugal - The balance between preventable myocardial infarction and the burden of the liver cancer associated to aflatoxin exposure". Paper presented in 41st Mycotoxin Workshop Estesl & Society for Mycotoxin Research, Lisboa, 2019.
  8. Boué, G.; Assunção, R.; Alvito, P.; Carmona, P; Carvalho, Catarina; Correia, D.; Fernandes, P.; et al. "Building capacity in risk-benefit assessment of foods: lessons learned from the RB4EU Project". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference on Food Contaminants (ICFC2019), 2019.
  9. Boue, G; Alvito, P; Brazão, R.; Carmona, P; Carvalho, Catarina; Correia, D.; Fernandes, P.; et al. "Risk Benefit Assessment of Foods: Lessons Learned from a Capacity Building Experience Under the RiskBenefit4EU Project". Paper presented in IAFP'S European Symposium on Food Safety, 2019.
  10. Assunção, R.; Jakobsen, L; Alvito, P.; Carmona, P.; Carvalho, Catarina; Correia, D.; Lopes, C.; et al. "Nut consumption in Portugal: the balance between the risks and the benefits regarding liver cancer and cardiovascular disease". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference on Food Contaminants, 2019.
  11. Assunção, R.; Boue, G; Alvito, P.; Brazão, R.; Carmona, P.; Carvalho, Catarina; Correia, D.; et al. "Risk-benefit assessment of cereal-based foods consumed by children - a case study under RB4EU project". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference on Food Contaminants (ICFC2019), Aveiro, 2019.
  12. Torres, Duarte; Carvalho, Catarina; Lobato, Liliane; Severo, Milton; Correia, Daniela; Lopes, Carla. "Which consumption data are needed to perform risk-benefit assessment?". Paper presented in Workshop on risk-benefit assessment on foods, Lisboa, 2018.
    Published
  13. Torres, Duarte; Severo, Milton; Carvalho, Catarina; Lobato, Liliane; Correia, Daniela; Nabais, Pedro; Carmona, Paulo; Vasconcelos, Filipa; Lopes, Carla. "Risk assessment associated with exposure to lead and cadmium in Portuguese Population". Paper presented in XVII Congress of Nutrition and Food and I International Congress of Nutrition and Food, Lisboa, 2018.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Assunção, Ricardo; Martins, Carla; Brazão, Roberto; Fernandes, Paulo; Carvalho-Oliveira, Isabel; Torres, Duarte; Lopes, Carla; et al. "Risk-Benefit Assessment: A tool for a better food and health policy in Europe". Paper presented in EFSA Conference 2018, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Catarina Carvalho; Milton Severo; Daniela Correia; Andreia Oliveira; Caroline van Rossum; Marga Ocké; Duarte Torres; Carla Lopes. "Quality evaluation of the food consumption and related data collected under the EU Menu Project". Zenodo (2024): https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10100898.
    10.5281/ZENODO.10100898
  2. Marga Ocké; Caroline van Rossum; Catarina Carvalho; Milton Severo; Daniela Correia; Andreia Oliveira; Duarte Torres; Carla Lopes. "Advice for the update of the EU Menu guidance: results of the ERA EU Menu project". EFSA Supporting Publications (2024): https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2903/sp.efsa.2024.EN-8578.
    10.2903/sp.efsa.2024.EN-8578
  3. Sofia Almeida Costa; Milton Severo; Daniela Correia; Catarina Carvalho; Vânia Magalhães; Sofia Vilela; Sara Cunha; et al. "Methodological approaches for the assessment of bisphenol A exposure". Food Research International (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2023.113251.
    10.1016/j.foodres.2023.113251
  4. Catarina Carvalho; Daniela Correia; Sofia Almeida Costa; Carla Lopes; Duarte Torres. "Assessing the environmental impact of diet – Influence of using different databases of foods' environmental footprints". Journal of Cleaner Production (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137973.
    10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137973
  5. Ana Pimenta Martins; Daniela Correia; Catarina Carvalho; Carla Lopes; Ana Maria Gomes; Duarte Torres. "Erratum". Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição (2023): https://doi.org/10.21011/apn.2023.3308.
    10.21011/apn.2023.3308
  6. Paola Biscotti; CRISTIAN DEL BO'; Catarina Carvalho; Duarte Torres; Emmanuelle Reboul; BEATRICE PELLEGRINI; Valentina Vinelli; et al. "Can the Substitution of Milk with Plant-Based Drinks Affect Health-Related Markers? A Systematic Review of Human Intervention Studies in Adults". Nutrients (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15112603.
    10.3390/nu15112603
  7. Catarina Carvalho; Milton Severo; Daniela Correia; Carla Lopes; Duarte Torres. "Meat or meatless meals at lunch and dinner – exploring the associated factors and transition between meals". International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/09637486.2023.2190504.
    10.1080/09637486.2023.2190504
  8. Caroline van Rossum; Sovianne ter Borg; Eline Nawijn; Andreia Oliveira; Catarina Carvalho; Marga Ocké. "Literature review on methodologies and tools for national dietary surveys; results of ERA EU-menu-project". EFSA Supporting Publications (2022): https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.EN-7725.
    10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.EN-7725
  9. "Analysis of the supply of micronutrient-fortified foods in Portugal". Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.21011/apn.2022.2903.
    10.21011/apn.2022.2903
  10. Catarina Carvalho; Daniela Correia; Milton Severo; Vânia Magalhães; Susana Casal; Elisabete Ramos; Carla Lopes; Duarte Torres. "Dietary exposure to artificial sweeteners and associated factors in the Portuguese population". Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/19440049.2022.2075039.
    10.1080/19440049.2022.2075039
  11. Sofia Almeida Costa; Daniela Correia; Catarina Carvalho; Sofia Vilela; Milton Severo; Carla Lopes; Duarte Torres. "Risk characterization of dietary acrylamide exposure and associated factors in the Portuguese population". Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A (2022): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/19440049.2022.2047540.
    10.1080/19440049.2022.2047540
  12. Catarina Carvalho; Daniela Correia; Milton Severo; Cláudia Afonso; Narcisa M. Bandarra; Susana Gonçalves; Helena M. Lourenço; et al. "Quantitative risk–benefit assessment of Portuguese fish and other seafood species consumption scenarios". British Journal of Nutrition (2021): 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114521004773.
    10.1017/S0007114521004773
  13. Ricardo Assunção; Géraldine Boué; Paula Alvito; Roberto Brazão; Paulo Carmona; Catarina Carvalho; Daniela Correia; et al. "Risk-Benefit Assessment of Cereal-Based Foods Consumed by Portuguese Children Aged 6 to 36 Months—A Case Study under the RiskBenefit4EU Project". Nutrients 13 9 (2021): 3127-3127. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13093127.
    10.3390/nu13093127
  14. Filippini, Tommaso; Torres, Duarte; Lopes, Carla; Carvalho, Catarina; Moreira, Pedro; Naska, Androniki; Kasdagli, Maria-Iosifina; et al. "Cadmium exposure and risk of breast cancer: A dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies". Environment International 142 (2020): 105879. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105879.
    10.1016/j.envint.2020.105879
  15. Vinceti, Marco; Filippini, Tommaso; Malavolti, Marcella; Naska, Androniki; Kasdagli, Maria-Iosifina; Torres, Duarte; Lopes, Carla; et al. "Dose-response relationships in health risk assessment of nutritional and toxicological factors in foods: development and application of novel biostatistical methods". EFSA Supporting Publications 17 7 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/sp.efsa.2020.en-1899.
    Published • 10.2903/sp.efsa.2020.en-1899
  16. Filippini, Tommaso; Torres, Duarte; Lopes, Carla; Carvalho, Catarina; Moreira, Pedro; Naska, Androniki; Kasdagli, Maria-Iosifina; et al. "Insights into the association of potassium intake with blood pressure: results of a dose-response meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials". Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 79 OCE2 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0029665120006138.
    10.1017/s0029665120006138
  17. Filippini, T.; Naska, A.; Kasdagli, M.-I.; Torres, D.; Lopes, C.; Carvalho, C.; Moreira, P.; et al. "Potassium Intake and Blood Pressure: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials". Journal of the American Heart Association 9 12 (2020): e015719-e015719. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85086525324&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1161/JAHA.119.015719
  18. Assunção, Ricardo; Boué, Géraldine; Alvito, Paula; Brazão, Roberto; Carmona, Paulo; Carvalho, Catarina; Correia, Daniela; et al. "Consumo de alimentos à base de cereais pelas crianças portuguesas: uma avaliação de risco-benefício". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/7084.
  19. Alvito, Paula; Brazão, Roberto; Carmona, Paulo; Carvalho, Catarina; Correia, Daniela; Fernandes, Paulo; Jakobsen, Lea S.; et al. "RiskBenefit4EU – Partnering to strengthen Risk-Benefit Assessment within the EU using a holistic approach". EFSA Supporting Publications 16 12 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/sp.efsa.2019.en-1768.
    10.2903/sp.efsa.2019.en-1768
  20. Assunção, Ricardo; Alvito, Paula; Brazão, Roberto; Carmona, Paulo; Carvalho, Catarina; Fernandes, Paulo; Jakobsen, Lea S.; et al. "Projeto RiskBenefit4EU – uma estratégia para a avaliação de risco-benefício de alimentos em Portugal". Boletim epidemiológico Observações 23 (2018): https://hdl.handle.net/10216/118364.
    Published
Report
  1. Alvito, Paula; Assunção, Ricardo; Fernandes, P.; Boué, Géraldine; Membré, Jeanne-Marie; Pires, Sara; Carvalho, Catarina; Torres, D.. 2018. Risk Benefit for EU - Partnering to strengthen the risk-benefit assessment within EU using a holistic approach: mid-term report. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/6183.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/09/29 Methylmercury exposure in different scenarios of fish intake in the Portuguese population EUGLOH Annual Student Research Conference - Global Health Challenges: Diseases of Modern Life
EUGLOH - European University Alliance for Global Health (Hungary)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/03/11 - 2019/03/15 RiskBenefit4EU Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) - The STSM took place at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Food) and included practical work by the visiting researcher, daily support and supervision by the hosting research team, and project presentation by the visiting researcher for the Risk Benefit Research Group.
Workshop
 RiskBenefit4EU Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM)
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
2018/10/08 - 2018/10/12 2nd training on Risk-Benefit assessment of Foods - Curso de Formação em Avaliação Risco-Benefício de alimentos, organizado no âmbito do projeto RiskBenefit4EU.
Workshop
 2nd training on Risk-Benefit assessment of Foods
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge IP, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 2º Prémio Melhor Comunicação Oral - Session: Environmental challenges: water and food contamination, climate change: EUGLOH Annual Student Research Conference - Global Health Challenges: Diseases of Modern Life
EUGLOH - European University Alliance for Global Health, Portugal