Martinette Streppel is senior lecturer and researcher at the research group Nutrition and Exercise, allied to the Nutrition and Dietetics program at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Martinette completed her studies in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen in 2001. She then studied Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University (completed in 2003). Martinette obtained her PhD degree in Wageningen (2009) on the effects of smoking, alcohol consumption, and intake of fatty acids and dietary fiber on mortality from cardiovascular disease and life expectancy. She distinguished between recent and long-term exposure to these factors.

Within the research group Nutrition and Exercise, Martinette works as a project leader and researcher. Her research focuses on healthy eating, exercise and sleep behavior in (young) children so that they develop in a healthy way. Parents/caregivers, professionals in childcare/school-setting and (youth) care and the food environment play an important role in this. In the various projects, the researchers focus particularly on families with different sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

m.t.streppel@hva.nl