Health Promotion Staff, Colette Kelly

Dr Colette Kelly BSc, MSc, PhD, RPHNutr  [ Email]

Profile
Dr. Colette Kelly joined the Health Promotion Research Centre in 2005 to work on the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey, a World Health Organisation collaborative cross-national study. Colette is a registered Public Health Nutritionist and is deputy editor to the journal Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. Previously Colette worked as a nutrition consultant, primarily to the food industry and also in nutrition research whilst living in the UK. Colette obtained her PhD from the University of Reading and her Masters from the University of Aberdeen, UK. She is also a graduate of University College Galway.

Teaching Interests:

• Nutrition through the life cycle
• Nutrition and health promotion
• Food legislation, nutrition and health claims

Research Interests:

• Health and health behaviour in children and adolescents
• Pre-school nutrition and health promotion
• Public health nutrition
• Diet and cardiovascular disease
• Nutrition science communication

Professional activities

• Deputy Editor Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
• Registered Public Health Nutritionist (RPHNutr.)
• Member of the Nutrition Society
• Member of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education
• Member of the Association for Health Promotion, Ireland

Selected Publications

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Al Sabbah, H., Vereecken, C., Abdeen, Z., Kelly, C., Ojala, K., Nemeth, A., Ahluwalia, N & Maes, L. (2009). Weight control behaviours among overweight, normal weight and underweight adolescents in Palestine: findings from the National Study of Palestinian Schoolchildren (HBSC - WBG 2004). International Journal of Eating Disorders. Published online May 2009. DOI: 10.1002/eat.20699.  download 116KB

Haug E, Rasmussen M, Samdal O, Iannotti R, Kelly C, Borraccino A, Vereecken C, Melkevik O, Lazzeri G, Giacchi M, Ercan O, Due P, Ravens-Sieberer U, Currie C, Morgan A, Ahluwalia N and the HBSC Obesity Writing Group (2009) Overweight in school-aged children and its relationship with demographic and lifestyle factors: results from the WHO-Collaborative Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study. International Journal of Public Health, 54, S167-179. download (193KB)

Kelly, C., Molcho, M., & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2009). Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland 2006 Middle Childhood Study: Socio-demographic patterns in health behaviours, risk behaviours, health outcomes and social contexts of young people’s health. Dublin: Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Department of Health and Children, Government of Ireland. download (846KB)

O'Connell, A., Gavin, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2009). The mean age at menarche of Irish girls in 2006. Irish Medical Journal 102 (3), 76-79. download (13KB)

Vereecken C, Dupuy M, Rasmussen M, Kelly C, Nanse TR, Al Sabbah H, Baldassari D, Delgrande Jordan M, Maes L, Niclasen B V-L, Ahluwalia Nand the HBSC Eating & Dieting Focus Group (2009) Breakfast consumption and its socio-demographic and lifestyle correlates in schoolchildren in 41 countries participating in the HBSC study. International Journal of Public Health, 54, S180-190. download (205KB)

Gavin, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn,S. (2008). HBSC Ireland. child well-being in Dublin City. Short report for the Dublin City Children’s Services Committee. download (338KB)

Gavin, A., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Key issues for conisderation in the development of a Data Strategy for Children in Ireland: a review of the literature. Report to the Office of the Minister for Children, Department of Health and Children, Government of Ireland. download (4KB)

Gavin, A., Molcho, M., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Family, peer and school relationships as predictors of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use in Irish adolescents: differences between sustained and experimental substance use behaviour. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s50-s51. download (885KB)

Kelly, C., Davin, V., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Family structure and children’s eating patterns: secondary analysis of the health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) study 2002. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s48-s49. download (916KB)

Kelly, C., Walker, L., Brennan, G., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). HBSC 2006 Full Variable Report: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland study 2006: Socio-demographic patterns in the health behaviours, risk behaviours, health outcomes and social contexts of young people’s lives. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. download  (4.27MB)

Molcho, M., Kelly, C., Gavin, A. & Nic  Gabhainn, S. (2008). Inequalities in health among school-aged children in Ireland. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. download (657KB)

Molcho, M., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Towards understanding food poverty in adolescence. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s42-s43. download (903KB)

Nic Gabhainn,S., Molcho, M. and Kelly, C. (2008). HBSC Ireland: frequency of smoking behaviour in middle childhood and adolescence. Short report to the Office of Tobacco Control, Ireland. download (18KB )

Kelly, C., Clerkin, P., Galvin, M., & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2007). Marketing of foodstuffs in post-primary schools in Ireland. Report to the Irish Heart Foundation. download  (494KB)

Nic Gabhainn, S., Kelly, C. & Molcho, M. (2007). HBSC Ireland 2006: National Report of the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children in Ireland. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. download (125MB)

Buttriss, J., Stanner, S., McKevith, B., Nugent, A.P., Kelly, C., Phillips, F., & Theobald, H.E. (2004). Successful ways to modify food choice: lessons from the literature. Nutrition Bulletin 29(4), 333-343. download (108KB)

Kelly, C.N.M., Miller, G.J., & Williams, C.M. (2004). Olive oil and haemostasis in ’Human Nutritional Properties of Olive Oil’. Grasas y Aceites 55, 52-65. download (91.6KB)

Stanner, S.A., Hughes, J., Kelly, C.N., & Buttriss, J. (2004). A review of the epidemiological evidence for the 'antioxidant hypothesis'. Public Health Nutrition 7(3), 407-22. download (242KB)

Kelly, C.N., & Stanner, S.A. (2003). Diet and cardiovascular disease in the UK: are the messages getting across? Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 62(3), 583-9. download (181KB)

McKevith, B., Kelly, C., Stanner, S., Hughes, J., & Buttriss, J. (2003). The Food Standards Agency's antioxidants in food programme – a summary. Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics 16(4), 257-263. download (71.8KB)

Nydahl, M.C., Smith, R.D., Kelly, C.N., Fielding, B.S., & Williams, C.M. (2003). Achievement of dietary fatty acid intakes in long-term controlled intervention studies:  approach and methodology. Public Health Nutrition 6(1), 31-40. download (152KB)

Silva, K.D., Kelly, C.N., Jones, A.E., Smith, R.D., Wootton, S.A., Miller, G.J., & Williams, C.M. (2003). Chylomicron particle size and number, factor VII activation and dietary monounsaturated fatty acids. Atherosclerosis 166(1), 73-84. download (247KB)

Smith, R., Kelly, C.N., Fielding, B.A., Hauton, D., Silva, K.D., Nydahl, M.C., Miller, G.J., & Williams, C.M. (2003). Long-term monounsaturated fatty acid diets reduce platelet aggregation in healthy young subjects. British Journal of Nutrition 90(3), 597-606. download (157KB)

Kelly, C. (2002). Can excess iron increase the risk for coronary heart disease and cancer? Nutrition Bulletin 27(3): 165-179. download (149KB)

Kelly, C.N.M., Smith, R.D., & Williams, C.M. (2001). Dietary monounsaturated fatty acids and haemostasis. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 60, 161-170. download (184KB)

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