Education

• 2006

  Bachelor degree from Food and NutritionHome Econmoic , King Abdul Aziz University , Jeddah, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2013

  Master degree from Nutrition and Dietetics/ Human Nutrition- Nutritional Genomics concentration Scinece , University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, امــريــكـا

• 2022

  Doctorate degree from Food Science and Nutrition اسم الكلية بالانجليزي, University of Leeds, ليدز, بريطانيا

Employment

• 2007-2008

  Food Technician , Gulf Catering Co.- King Abdul Aziz University Hospital , جده, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2008-2009

  Chief Project Operation , Gulf Catering Co.- King Abdul Aziz University Hospital , Jeddah, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2013-2015

  Teaching Assistant, King AbdulAziz University, جده, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2015-2023

  Lecturer, King AbdulAziz University, جده, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2023-حاليا

  Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University, , المملكة العربية السعودية

Research Interests

Nutritional epidemiology studies
Systematic reviwes in the field of nutritional epidemiology
Factors (e.g. personal, socio-environmental, socio-economic and sensory) affecting food choices and intake
Nutritional behavioural and eating patterns
Nutritional genomics
Nutrition and public health
Relationships between diets and the development of chronic diseases
Dietary surveys and dietary assessment
Nutrition interventions to improve nutritional behavioural and eating patterns
Factors affecting diet quality
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:Publications

Bawajeeh, A., Zulyniak, M. A., Evans, C. E., & Cade, J. E. (2022). Corrigendum: Characterizing adolescents' dietary intake by taste: Results from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey. Frontiers in Nutrition, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.1046893

Areej Bawajeeh, Sondos Kalendar, Giulia Scarpa, Neil Hancock, Sarah Beer, Lauren Gibson, Grace Williams, Basma Dashti, Salwa Albar, Hannah Ensaff, Michael A. Zulyniak, Charlotte E. Evans, Janet E. Cade, (2021). Development of an Arabic food composition database for use in an Arabic online dietary assessment tool (myfood24). Journal of Food Composition and Analysis,102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2021.104047.

Scarpa, G., Berrang-Ford, L., Bawajeeh, A., Twesigomwe, S., Kakwangire, P., Peters, R., . . . Cade, J. (2021). Developing an online food composition database for an Indigenous population in south-western Uganda. Public Health Nutrition, 24(9), 2455-2464. doi:10.1017/S1368980021001397

Bawajeeh, Areej O., Salwa A. Albar, Huifeng Zhang, Michael A. Zulyniak, Charlotte E. L. Evans, and Janet E. Cade. (2020). Impact of Taste on Food Choices in Adolescence—Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients, 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12071985

Zhang, Huifeng, Laura Hardie, Areej O. Bawajeeh, and Janet Cade. (2020). Meat Consumption, Cognitive Function and Disorders: A Systematic Review with Narrative Synthesis and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients, 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12051528

Connor Chestnut, Woodson Smelser, Travis Dum, Misty Bechtel, Lauren Hand, Carrie Michel, Areej Bawajeeh, Sepideh Zohreh, Weiya Liu, Shrikant Anant, David Robbins, Jeffrey M. Holzbeierlein, Jill Hamilton-Reeves & Eugene K. Lee (2020) Glycemic impact of a diet and lifestyle intervention on diabetics and prediabetics during treatment for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, Nutrition and Cancer, 72:7, 1219-1224, DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2019.1672761

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