Rate My Professor Rosalind Gibson

Gibson's research interests center on the assessment and functional health outcomes of micronutrient deficiencies in at-risk populations in low-income countries, with a focus on iron and zinc deficiencies, food-based strategies to combat micronutrient malnutrition, and enhancing micronutrient content and bioavailability in plant-based diets to impact growth and development. She authored the standard reference Principles of Nutritional Assessment, with the third edition's chapters freely available online. Key publications include Diana et al. (2021), 'Determination of modifiable risk factors for length-for-age z-scores among resource-poor Indonesian infants' (PLoS ONE); Leong et al. (2021), 'Differences in micronutrient intakes of exclusive and partially breastfed Indonesian infants from resource-poor households' (Journal of Nutrition); Gibson et al. (2020), 'Association of maternal diet, micronutrient status, and milk volume with milk micronutrient concentrations in Indonesian mothers at 2 and 5 months postpartum' (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition); and Daniels et al. (2019), 'Micronutrient intakes of lactating mothers and their association with breast milk concentrations' (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition). She received the McHenry Award (Canadian Society of Nutritional Sciences), Rank Prize (British Nutrition Foundation), Lifetime Achievements in Global Nutrition Research Award, McCollum Award, and E. V. McCollum International Lectureship (American Society for Nutrition), and an honorary DSc (University of Guelph, 2022). Gibson co-directed the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition in the Western Pacific Region until 2017, served as an expert adviser for WHO and FAO, and was an Emerita member of the International Zinc Nutrition Collaborative Group.