Tim Green

MSc, PhD, BSc

Affiliate Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Principal Nutritionist, Women and Kids Theme, SAHMRI
Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University
Affiliate Professor, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide

Optimal nutrition during pregnancy is important for healthy babies and children. My interests are focused on how maternal micronutrient status influences birth and childhood outcomes.

My long-term research goals are to use existing cohorts, in which components of maternal diet, particularly micronutrients, assessed by dietary intake methodologies or by biomarkers, are compared to pregnancy outcomes and subsequent disease risk. In addition, genotyping mother and infant will allow the assessment of the potential interaction between maternal diet, variation in genes, and outcome.

My research will include clinical trials to rigorously test these associations as well as dose response trials will to determine requirements or optimal intakes of dietary constituents during pregnancy.