Jean Oppert

Jean-Michel Oppert MD, PhD, is Professor of Nutrition at Sorbonne Université (University Pierre et Marie Curie-UPMC) and head of the Department of Nutrition at the Paris PitiéSalpêtrière university hospital (AP-HP).

His main research interests in nutrition epidemiology include the measurement of physical activity and sedentary behavior in population-based studies and in patients with cardiometabolic diseases, and the investigation of environmental determinants of physical activity and eating habits. He has been or is involved in national and EU-funded projects on physical activity and/or obesity such as Nugenob (FP5), ALPHA (DG Sanco), HOPE (FP6), SPOTLIGHT (FP7), METACARDIS (FP7). He is the author or co-author of more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to physical activity and nutrition.

He has a long-standing interest in lifestyle-associated diseases and related public health issues from a European perspective. He is a founding member and has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Health Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA)-Europe network supported by WHO Europe (2004-2012) and he is past president of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO). He is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Healthy Diet Healthy Life.