Swati Jain
Lady Irwin College, India
Biography
Swati Jain is presently working as an Asst. Prof in Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi. She completed her PhD in Life Sciences from the Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India. She is a qualified nutritionist. Her PhD thesis and research work was focused on appetite regulation, specifically on a nutritional approach for sustenance during conditions of food shortage. During that time she has published extensively in international scientific research journals and was awarded a fellowship for her research and international Travel Grant Awards from Indian Council of Medical Research and Department of Biotechnology. She has also written health magazines as a nutrition expert and has travelled internationally for conferences. Before, she had studied at University of Delhi for her Masters and Bachelors in Food and Nutrition. Her main research interest areas have centered on mechanism based nutrition studies, intervention research focused on nutrition issues related to chronic disease risk reduction and self-management; child growth and malnutrition.