Sabita Soedamah-Muthu (SSM) completed a Bachelor in Biomedical Health Sciences and a Masters in Epidemiology at Radboud University Nijmegen (1991-1996). After her appointments at NV Organon in Oss (Medical Research Associate project leader) and the Ziekenfondsraad (Epidemiologist) in Amstelveen, she emigrated to the UK for six years. She completed her PhD in 2003 on a diabetes project conducted at University College London, London, UK and at Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, America with a self-acquired grant. She has subsequently worked at several universities. She previously held a post-doc appointment at University College London, Assistant Professor appointment at the Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care Medicine in Utrecht (2004-2008) and at the Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University (2009-2017). Her appointment at Tilburg University started in 2017 as Associate Professor of Diabetes and since 1 November 2024 as Full Professor in Lifestyle Epidemiology and Health Psychology. She has developed herself over the years in clinical epidemiology and nutritional epidemiology, and gained experience in designing and conducting studies with different designs (qualitative, quantitative, cohort studies, co-creation, meta-analyses and intervention studies (RCT). Since 2017, she has been affiliated with the University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Reading, UK as visiting Senior Scientist at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health. She has >200 publications with a web of science H-index of 42. As (co)supervisor, she supervises seven PhD students, several student assistants, a junior researcher and two post-docs.                                                      

Since September 2020, SSM has been a representative from Tilburg University for Lifestyle4Health, a national programme aimed at reducing disease, complications and medication and putting lifestyle on the map. In addition, SSM is visible nationally and internationally through her ancillary positions, publication track record and invitations for lectures/ conference organisation/ reviewing/consulting etc. SSM was a member of the Scientific Committee at the Diabetes Foundation and at the Dutch Heart Foundation. She was a board member of the Dutch Academy of Nutrition Sciences (NAV) for many years and is currently board member of the annual VoedingNL congress organization on behalf of the NAV. Last year, as a secondary task, she had an advisory role in the Sustainable Behavioural Change Expert Team to realise lifestyle in healthcare and identify gaps in scientific knowledge. This was part of the Coalition Lifestyle in Care and initiated new ZonMw calls.

She is responsible for teaching in the Bachelor Psychology and in the Masters Medical Psychology (2F300): supervision of Bachelor and Master Thesis.
She is coordinating and teaching in the Ziekteleer (500819) course several lectures on Diabetes in the Masters Medical Psychology.
She is the REMA-IDA Elective coordinator and supervises research master students on traineeships, first year paper and master thesis.

She teaches in the new minor Digitale Gezondheid offered university wide across all schools.
 

Past experiences:

She was appointed from January 2018 -2024 as Academic Director of the Bachelor Psychology (3 year curriculum).

She was teaching in the Research Skills in Psychology course (RSiP 424531 and POP 500195) and the Professional Skills course: Group skills (500016) and coordinator of the Dutch course Professional Skills: Ethics (500143) and the International course Professional Skills: Ethical Issues (500218) in the Bachelor Psychology

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