Clíona Ní Mhurchú

Clíona Ní Mhurchú
Ní Mhurchú in 2023
Born	Dublin
Alma mater	University of Southampton
Scientific career
Fields	population nutrition
Institutions	University of Auckland
Thesis	Effectiveness of motivational interviewing in dietary education for people with hyperlipidaemia  (1997)

Clíona Ní Mhurchú is a New Zealand population nutrition academic. She is currently a professor at the University of Auckland^[1] and Nutrition Lead at the National Institute for Health Innovation.

Career

After training at Trinity College Dublin and receiving a PhD from the University of Southampton with the thesis Effectiveness of motivational interviewing in dietary education for people with hyperlipidaemia, Ní Mhurchú stated work at the University of Auckland where she rose to full professor.^[1]

In 1999-02 and 2010–13 Ní Mhurchú received funding from the Heart Foundation of New Zealand^[1] and she is on a number of national and international technical advisory groups.^[2][3]

Her research regularly gets covered in the mainstream New Zealand press.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Selected works

• Anderson, Craig; Sally Rubenach; Cliona Ni Mhurchu; Michael Clark; Carol Spencer, and Adrian Winsor. "Home or hospital for stroke rehabilitation? Results of a randomized controlled trial." Stroke 31, no. 5 (2000): 1024–1031.
• James, W. Philip T., Rachel Jackson-Leach, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Eleni Kalamara, Maryam Shayeghi, Neville J. Rigby, Chizuru Nishida, and Anthony Rodgers. "Overweight and obesity (high body mass index)." Comparative quantification of health risks: global and regional burden of disease attribution to selected major risk factors 1 (2004): 497–596.
• Maddison, Ralph, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Andrew Jull, Yannan Jiang, Harry Prapavessis, and Anthony Rodgers. "Energy expended playing video console games: an opportunity to increase children’s physical activity?." Pediatric exercise science 19, no. 3 (2007): 334–343.
• Utter, Jennifer, Robert Scragg, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, and David Schaaf. "At-home breakfast consumption among New Zealand children: associations with body mass index and related nutrition behaviors." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 107, no. 4 (2007): 570–576.
• Maddison, Ralph, Louise Foley, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Yannan Jiang, Andrew Jull, Harry Prapavessis, Maea Hohepa, and Anthony Rodgers. "Effects of active video games on body composition: a randomized controlled trial." The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 94, no. 1 (2011): 156–163.

References

1. "Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu – The University of Auckland". Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
2. "Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu | DIET". Diet.auckland.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
3. "Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu – Healthier Lives". Healthierlives.co.nz. 20 June 2014. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
4. "Food labels little used: research". NZ Herald. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
5. "Kiwi kids are exposed to 27 junk food advertisements a day, study finds". Stuff. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
6. "Kiwi kids bombarded with junk food ads – study". Newshub. 2 January 2017. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
7. "Call for plain packaging on soft drinks | Radio New Zealand News". Radionz.co.nz. September 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
8. "NZ kids can't escape alcohol marketing next to bread and milk | New Zealand Doctor". Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

External links

• Official website