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Coosje is a post doctoral researcher at the Institute of Health sciences, department Youth and Lifestyle at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute. She is trained as a nutritionist and epidemiologist and obtained her Master’s degree from Wageningen University. She is working on different research projects aiming to decrease socioeconomic inequalities in dietary intake in children and adolescence. Examples are the Voedselwijs project, in which she evaluates a multiple component school garden based program, aiming to increase vegetable consumption in children in social economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Coosje supervises several PhD students who are working on the Green Healthy Student research, the Healthy Supermarket research and the schoollunch research. 

Coosje her main interests are:

- Socioeconomic inequalities in dietary intake, dietary behavior and food environments
- Fruit, vegetables and fish intake 
- Food choices
- Nutritional epidemiology