Elisabetta Recine is a nutritionist, has a PhD in Public Health, and is a professor at the University of Brasília, Brazil, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences.
She has academic and governmental experience in food and nutrition policies, food and nutrition security and the right to food. Between 2000 and 2003, she worked on the implementation of the Food and Nutrition National Policy with the Ministry of Health. She is currently the president of the Brazilian National Food and Nutrition Security Council (Consea) (2023–2024 and 2017–2018), adviser board of the Presidency of the Republic. The council was composed of representatives of civil society and government of the different areas.
Her professional life has been guided by the perspective of relating the different dimensions of the food systems and nutrition considering consumption, determinants of food behaviour, people's health, aiming at the progressive realization of right to adequate food. Currently she is also the coordinator of the Observatory for Food and Nutrition Security Policies of the University of Brasília.
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She is a national of Brazil.
