Dr Dexter Canoy is a Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Public Health in the Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics at the University of Manchester in the UK. He examines all aspects of obesity research and co-manages the Obesity e-Lab project grant. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Public Health Science and General Practice at the University of Oulu in Finland, and the same at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Imperial College in London. He continues to build on his earlier research work involving the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts at the University of Oulu, and the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (Norfolk, UK) cohort at the University of Cambridge. He has also worked as a GP in the Philippines.

Dr Canoy has a BSc in Psychology and is an MD. He also has an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology which were conferred by the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Dr Canoy’s main research interests are in obesity epidemiology, the nutritional, metabolic and lifestyle determinants of chronic diseases, lifecourse epidemiology and how each of these aspects interact.

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