Dr Magaly Aceves Martins

Dr Magaly Aceves Martins
Research Fellow
- About
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The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health
University of Aberdeen
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB25 2ZDBiography
Magaly is a passionate advocate of nutrition, health promotion, healthy lifestyles and health policies for building a better future. She is part of The Rowett Institute and works on different RESAS-funded projects researching the relationships between healthiness, environmental sustainability and the cost of UK diets. She has also been part of childhood and adolescent obesity prevention and lifestyle improvement projects. She has experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods and fieldwork experience in clinical nutrition, health promotion, and nutrition interventions. She joined the University of Aberdeen in April 2017 and was part of the Health Services Research Unit. During this time, she was involved in the Knowledge Syntheses Team, which conducts high-quality research to inform healthcare professionals, policymakers and service users across a wide range of healthcare interventions
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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She is a mentor at the SUCCESS PLUS (Socio-cUltural Coaching for Careers and Employability to Support Success: Pathways for Life Underpinning Success) Mentoring programme within the University of Aberdeen.
- External Memberships
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She is a Cochrane Member. She is part of the Board of Editors for the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB, USA), which is the official journal of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behaviour that represents the unique professional interests of nutrition educators worldwide. Also, she is a Review Editor for the International Journal of Public Health (IJPH), which publishes scientific articles relevant to global public health from different countries and cultures, and assembles them into issues that raise awareness and understanding of public health problems and solutions.
- Research
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Research Overview
As a woman working in and for health and nutrition sciences, Magaly tends to think broader about how science interacts with the real world and translates into better environments so that people can make healthier choices. She has used quantitative and qualitative research methods and has fieldwork experience in clinical nutrition, health promotion, nutritional interventions, and evidence synthesis. She also has an interest in methods regarding knowledge transference, public engagement, and the implementation of research findings into clinical practice and policymaking.
Research Areas
Applied Health Sciences
Biomedical Sciences
Nutrition and Health
Current Research
Currently, she is working with data from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) to model the relationships between ‘healthiness’, ‘carbon footprint’ and ‘cost’ of UK diets, using our newly developed NDNS nutrient database. This work aims to establish determinants of healthy and sustainable diets.
Past Research
She has collaborated on national and international research projects, such as the Childhood Obesity in MexicO (COMO) project, the European Youth Tackling Obesity (EYTO) Project, EYTO-Kids Project, and the Health Behaviours in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study. She has also been involved in different Health Technology Assessment Programme commissioned by the National Institute of Health Research. Some of these include Systematic review and integrated report on the quantitative, qualitative and economic evidence base for the management of severe obesity (REBALANCE) project; Testosterone Effects and Safety in Men with Low Testosterone levels (TestES Consortium): An evidence synthesis (including an individual participant data meta-analysis) and economic evaluation; The ARCHITECT Urine NGAL assay, NephroCheck Test and NGAL Test to help assess the risk of acute kidney injury for people who are being considered for admission to critical care; and a rapid review about child food insecurity in the UK: evidence on its extent, nature and effects and what can be done to address it.
Knowledge Exchange
Magaly was part of the Public Engagement Group from the Health Services Research Unit. Through such activities, sharing information, she shared daily work experiences with the general public. Such experience showed her that public engagement comprises interaction and listening, which results in mutual learning.
She is a huge supporter of #WomenInScience and #WomenInSTEM. More women are needed in the scientific environment, and once they are in it, we need to retain them. There are still many stereotypes and gaps that need to be avoided, and she is willing to help achieve so.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
She is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (aFHEA) since 2020.
She has experience teaching higher education in Mexico, Spain, and the UK.
She is currently involved in delivering online material and lectures in the Challenges in Global Nutrition course.
- Publications
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Ready meals, especially those that are animal-based and cooked in an oven, have lower nutritional quality, higher greenhouse gas emissions and are more expensive than equivalent home-cooked meals
Public Health Nutrition, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 531-539Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA novel application of machine learning and zero-shot classification methods for automated abstract screening in systematic reviews
Decision Analytics Journal, vol. 6, 100162Contributions to Journals: ArticlesObesity and its Association with Mental Health among Mexican Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review
Nutrition ReviewsContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuac083
Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: A systematic review of qualitative studies
Obesity Reviews, vol. 23, no. 9, e13461Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13461
MSR1 Using Artificial Intelligence Methods for Systematic Review in Health Sciences: A Systematic Review
ISPOR 2022, pp. S517Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2022.04.1208
Adverse cardiovascular events and mortality in men during testosterone treatment: an individual patient and aggregate data meta-analysis
The Lancet Healthy Longevity, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. e381–393Contributions to Journals: ArticlesObesity and oral health in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis
Nutrition Reviews, vol. 80, no. 6, pp. 1694–1710Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDoes weight management research for adults with severe obesity represent them? Analysis of systematic review data
BMJ Open, vol. 12, no. 5, e054459Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: A systematic review
Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 353-362Contributions to Journals: Review articlesEffect of brown seaweed on plasma glucose in healthy, at-risk, and type 2 diabetic individuals: systematic review and meta-analysis
Nutrition Reviews, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 1194–1205Contributions to Journals: Articles