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Marta Filipa Pinto da Costa. Completed the Master's in Public Health in 2019 from the University of Porto Faculty of Medicine and the University of Porto Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, and Degree in Nutrition Sciences in 2016 from the Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde. Attends a PhD in Public Health from the University of Porto Faculty of Medicine since 2021. She is a PhD Student at the University of Porto Institute of Public Health. She has published 2 articles in specialized journals. She participated in 6 events. She has received 1 award. She participates and/or participated as a PhD Fellow in 1 project and Research Fellow in 2 projects. Works in the areas of Medical and Health Sciences with an emphasis on Nutrition and Dietetics, Epidemiology and Medical and Public Health and Environmental Health. In your Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: Tracking; Childhood; Eating habits; Puberty onset; Diet quality; Adolescence.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marta Filipa Pinto da Costa
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Pinto da Costa, Marta

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FF12-1DEF-0A45
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2730-8174

Email addresses

  • martafpc212@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • Rua das Taipas 135, 4050-091, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Nutrition, Dietetics
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Epidemiology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Public and Environmental Health

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/01 - 2025/01
Ongoing
 Saúde Pública (Doutoramento)
Major in Nutrição em Saúde Pública
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017/09 - 2019/11/26
Concluded
 Saúde Pública (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"Healthy Eating Pattern in Childhood: Tracking and its Related Factors" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2012/09 - 2016/11/07
Concluded
 Ciências da Nutrição (Licenciatura)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
"Descrição do consumo alimentar de crianças aos 4 e aos 7 anos no Porto" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/05/01 - 2020/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2018/02/16 - 2019/04/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017/03/07 - 2017/09/07 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2016/07 - 2017/03 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2016/02/15 - 2016/06/08 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01 - Current Aluno de Doutoramento Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01 - Current Acquisition of eating habits from childhood to adolescence and influence on puberty onset and development
2020.08314.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/05/01 - 2020/04/30 FOCAcCia - Exposure to food additives and contaminants from food processing and packaging: Defining patterns and their effects on adiposity and cognitive function from childhood to Adolescence
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031949
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/02/16 - 2019/04/30 Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large populations Surveys (HEALS)
HEALTH-FP7-ENV-2013,
Research Fellow
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development IDEAS The European Research Council
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Pinto da Costa, Marta; Lopes, Carla; Vilela, Sofia. "Evolution of healthy eating from 4 to 7 years of age: data from the Generation XXI population-based cohort.". Paper presented in XVI Congress of Nutrition and Food, Lisboa, 2017.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Pinto da Costa, Marta; Vilela, Sofia; Araújo, Joana; Fossati, Serena; Freire, Carmen; de Castro Pascual, Montserrat; Bueno, Gloria; et al. "Urban Environment and Puberty Onset: a population-based birth cohort study". Paper presented in 18th INMA Scientific Conference, 2023.
  2. Faria, Beatriz; Pinto da Costa, Marta; Vilela, Sofia. "Assessment index for a healthy lifestyle of school age children". Paper presented in XXI Congress of Food and Nutrition,, 2022.
  3. Pinto da Costa, Marta; Oliveira, Andreia; Lopes, Carla; Vilela, Sofia. "The influence of Children’s Eating Behaviours related to appetite on adherence to a healthy diet at 7 years of age". Paper presented in XVII Congress of Nutrition and Food and I International Congress of Nutrition and Food, 2018.
  4. Pinto da Costa, Marta; Vilela, Sofia; Magalhães, Vânia; Oliveira, Andreia; Lopes, Carla. "Consumo de fruta e produtos hortícolas e de alimentos de elevada densidade energética entre os 4 e os 7 anos [Consumption of fruit and vegetables and energy dense foods between 4 and 7 years]". Paper presented in XV Congress of Nutrition and Food, 2016.
Journal article
  1. Marta Pinto da Costa; Milton Severo; Andreia Oliveira; Carla Lopes; Marion Hetherington; Sofia Vilela. "Longitudinal bidirectional relationship between children's appetite and diet quality: A prospective cohort study". Appetite (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105801.
    10.1016/j.appet.2021.105801
  2. Pinto da Costa, Marta; Severo, Milton (5C1C-C73C-55CC); Oliveira, Andreia; Lopes, Carla; Hetherington, Marion; Vilela, Sofia. "Longitudinal bidirectional relationship between children’s appetite and diet quality: a prospective cohort study". European Journal of Nutrition (2020):
    Under revision
  3. Marta Pinto da Costa; Catarina Durão; Carla Lopes; Sofia Vilela. "Adherence to a healthy eating index from pre-school to school age and its associations with sociodemographic and early life factors". British Journal of Nutrition 122 2 (2019): 220-230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114519001028.
    Published • 10.1017/S0007114519001028
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Pinto da Costa, Marta. "Healthy Eating Pattern in Childhood: Tracking and its Related Factors". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, 2019.
  2. Pinto da Costa, Marta. "Descrição do consumo alimentar de crianças aos 4 e aos 7 anos no Porto". Degree, Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, 2016.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/03 Assessing the Influence of Breastfeeding and its Duration on Early Puberty Onset XXII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Investigación en Nutrición y Alimentación en Pediatría
Sociedad Española de Investigación en Nutrición y Alimentación en Pediatría (Madrid, Spain)
2023/11/03 Utility of Predicted Maturity Offset as an Estimator of Puberty Progression in European Children: Insights from the Generation XXI and GENOBOX Cohorts XXII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Investigación en Nutrición y Alimentación en Pediatría
Sociedad Española de Investigación en Nutrición y Alimentación en Pediatría (Madrid, Spain)
2023/09 Association Between Predicted Maturity Offset and Pubertal Staging in Male and Female Children and Adolescents XLI Reúnion Anual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiologia (SEE) y XVIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemilogia (APE)
Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia e Sociedad Española de Epidemiologia (Porto, Portugal)
2023/05/16 Exploring the relationship between urban environment, diet and puberty onset: an exposome analysis within a population-based birth cohort XXII Congress of Food and Nutrition & III International Congress of Food and Nutrition
Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição (Porto, Portugal)
2022/09 Tracking of diet quality from childhood to adolescence: a 10-year follow-up study XL Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiologia (SEE) y XVII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemilogia (APE)
Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia e Sociedad Española de Epidemiologia (San Sebastian, Spain)
2022/05/26 Understanding the Influence of Socioeconomic and Behavioural Factors on Dietary Exposure to Heterocyclic Amines Among the Portuguese Population XXI Congress of Food and Nutrition,
Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/05/26 Socioeconomic and Household Framework Influences in School-aged Children’s Eating: Understanding the Role of the Father XXI Congress of Food and Nutrition
Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/05/02 - 2023/05/03 CA18208 – “HARMONY”. Novel tools for test evaluation and disease prevalence estimation. Topic: Bias in prevalence studies
Seminar
 Bias in prevalence studies
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2022 - 2022 International Summer School in Global Health
Seminar
 International Summer School in Global Health
Fundación Privada Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain
2022 - 2022 DataSHIELD Conference
Conference
 DataSHIELD Conference
Fundación Privada Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain
2020/03 - 2020/05 Online course: Nutrition and Health - food risk course
Other
Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
2017 - 2017 Short course: ‘Nutrition and Public Health’
Other
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Short course: ‘Oncological Nutrition’
Other
Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2017/11 - Current Ordem dos Nutricionistas
Distinctions

Award

2016 3rd Best Poster
Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição, Portugal