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Diana Sagastume
Institute Of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium


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Diana Sagastume is a researcher in the Department of Public Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (Belgium), besides pursuing her PhD at the University of Antwerp, which entitles ‘Understanding and addressing the double burden of malnutrition at the household level in Guatemala’. Her education entails a BSc degree in Clinical Nutrition from Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City and an MSc degree in Nutrition and Health with a specialisation in Nutritional Physiology and Health Status followed at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Currently, she leads and assists in different projects mainly focused on addressing modifiable risk factors for the prevention of NCDs, including developing health promotion programmes for low- and middle-income countries and conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses on topics related to malnutrition, lifestyle and prevention of NCDs in constrained-resource settings. Further, she is a lecturer in the advanced course of NCDs offered by ITM and the Masters of Epidemiology at the University of Antwerp.