FJ van Lenthe
Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Frank van Lenthe is assistant professor Social Epidemiology with the Department of Public Health at Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam. His main research interest is in socioeconomic inequalities in health, preventing obesity in the population and the role of physical and social environmental characteristics for health. He is the project coordinator of a large EC-funded project on obesity prevention in Europe (project HOPE), an EC funded project on the prevention of socioeconomic inequalities in health-related behaviour in adolescents (project TEENAGE), and the project leader of a prospective cohort study aimed at explaining socioeconomic inequalities in health (the GLOBE study). He authored over 85 international publications and several book chapters. He is the associate editor of the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. He is a member of the Netherlands Health Council commission which prepares an advice on physical activity promotion through environmental changes. His PhD-thesis, obtained in 1998, was on the development of a central pattern of body fat from adolescence into adulthood.