Professor Robin Macleod
Associate Professor and Program Leader for Dietetics, Centre of Excellence for Nutrition (CEN), North-West University (NWU)
Professor Robin Macleod has a PhD in Dietetics and is currently an Associate Professor and the Program Leader for Dietetics at the Centre of Excellence for Nutrition (CEN), North-West University (NWU). Prior to becoming an academic in 2007, she worked as a clinical dietitian at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. During her 11 years at the hospital, she mostly worked in the paediatric wards, gaining valuable experience in infant and young child feeding and in-house training of dietetic students. She currently teaches therapeutic nutrition at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at NWU.
Her main area of research expertise is therapeutic nutrition, particularly in the critically ill and severe acute malnutrition. She has successfully supervised more than 17 MSc students and 3 PhD students.
She is passionate about the capacity building of nutrition professionals and is a member of the African Nutrition Leadership Program (ANLP) organising committee. She is also the project leader for the Support Program for PhD Students, which CEN is hosting for the 4 th time this year. She has been involved in various African capacity development projects, including the LEDA- NN project in Nigeria and, more recently, the Capacity Development of Nutrition Officers for Food Systems Governance in Malawi (CapDev Malawi) project. As program leader of the dietetics training at NWU, she is actively involved in embedding leadership capabilities in the undergraduate training of students.