SCHOOL OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
Oscar Fernando
HERRÁN FALLA
CONTACT
Information
herran@gmail.com
+57 (607) 632 3215
GENERAL
Biography
Oscar F. Herrán has been a professor for 30 years, his passions are nutritional epidemiology, of which he is a pioneer in Colombia, training nutritional epidemiologists and soccer. He has been a Senior Researcher [Colciencias/MinCiencias] for more than a decade and has collaborated with different national and foreign universities, in the purpose of developing nutritional epidemiology. It vindicates its link with the centennial and meritorious Universidad Nacional de Colombia through OBSSAN. He has been a researcher of the ENSIN in its versions 2005, 2010 and 2015. He defines himself as just another student.
EDUCATION AND
Qualifications
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Magíster en Epidemiología
Universidad del Valle, 1993
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Especialista en Docencia Universitaria
Universidad Industrial de Santander, 1997
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Nutricionista Dietista
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1987
CONTACT
Information
herran@gmail.com
+57 (607) 632 3215
AREAS OF
Expertise
- Nutritional Epidemiology
OFFICE
Hours
Wednesday
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
Thursday
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
UIS Central Campus, Edificio de Bienestar Universitario, SEA
Outstanding
Works
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Reproducibility of two Semi-Quantitative Alcohol Frequency Questionnaires for Colombian Population
Article, Public Health Nutrition, 2006
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Consumption of sweetened-beverages and poverty in Colombia: when access is not an advantage
Article, BMC Public Health, 2018
AWARDS AND
Recognitions
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Best research in nutrition unpublished in Colombia
CONCURSO PREMIO DYETESIN, Asociación Colombiana de Dietistas y Nutricionistas
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First place. Research in epidemiology, free category
CONCURSO PREMIO FERNANDO ZAMBRANO. Asociación Colombiana De Epidemiología. (ASOCEPI)
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First place; Best National Research Completed
CONCURSO CENTRO DE ALIMENTACIÓN Y NUTRICIÓN (CIAN). Universidad de Antioquia, 2002