Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gilberto Kac holds a degree in Nutrition from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1992); he completed his residency in Public Health (1993) and master's degree in Public Health (1996) at the National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and completed his PhD in Public Health from the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (2002) and a sandwich internship at the University of California, Davis. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford (2010-2011) and was a visiting professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis (2017-2018). He has been a full professor at the Josué de Castro Institute of Nutrition at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 2011, coordinator of the Observatory of Nutritional Epidemiology of the same institution, a CNPq productivity scholarship holder 1A and a scientist of our state at FAPERJ. He works in the area of nutritional epidemiology of the maternal and child group. He has published more than 210 articles in national and international journals and has supervised more than 130 students, including master's, doctoral and post-doctoral students. He organized the book Nutritional Epidemiology published by Fiocruz (first edition in 1998 and second edition in press for 2023) and edited four thematic volumes: Nutritional Transition and the Epidemiology of Obesity in Latin America (Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2003); Maternal and Child Nutritional Epidemiology and the Agenda of Research Priorities in Health in Brazil (Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2008) and Preventing Childhood Obesity in the Americas: The Life Course Framework (International Journal of Obesity, 2013) together with Rafael Pérez-Escamilla and the most recent (2023) The Brazilian Survey of Child Nutrition and its Role on Child Food and Nutrition Policy. He is currently developing collaborations with researchers from several Brazilian states and the United States (Yale University, University of California, USDA, Cornell University), England (Oxford University, Cambridge University and Kings College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), and Canada (British Columbia University) among others. He is the general coordinator of the National Study of Child Feeding and Nutrition (ENANI-2019), the National Study of Maternal and Child Feeding and Nutrition (ENANI-2024) and the project New Brazilian Curves of Gestational Weight Gain. He was Associate Editor of Cadernos de Saúde Pública (2001-2015) and is a reviewer for specialized journals such as the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Journal of Nutrition, Nutrition, British Journal Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition, among others. He is an associate editor of Maternal and Child Nutrition (2017-). He was the founder and president of the National Forum of Postgraduate Programs in Nutrition (2006-2010) and coordinator of the Nutrition area at CAPES (2011-2017). He was a founding member of the ABRASCO Working Group on Food and Nutrition in Public Health. He was a member of the board of directors of the Pan-American Health and Education Organization (PAHEF) and a consultant for the World Bank, having worked on projects developed in the African continent. Currently (2023-) he is a consultant for the World Health Organization on the Global gestational weight gain standards project, in addition to participating in several Technical Advisory Groups.