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Marianne Morseth

Marianne Morseth

Job title
  • Associate Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 32, 0166 Oslo
  • Office number: N060.026
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 907 97 527
  • Office: +47 672 36 327
E-mail
  • marianne.morseth@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

An associate professor in Public Health Nutrition and clinical nutritionist with particular interest in global nutrition and reseach experience from South Africa, Algeria and Nepal. Her main teaching topics are global nutrition, the project cycle for nutritional interventions and social inequalities in health and nutrition. Her publications are diverse e.g. within the fields of intestinal health and child malnutrition (PhD), health risks in refugee populations (diabetes and iodine excess), knowledge and dietary practice among children and adolescents and their caretakers, covering both quantitative and qualitative research methods. She is the leader of work package 5 in the research project New Tools aiming to develop new scores for health and sustainability for food system transformation. She has supervised many masterstudents in nutrition and is part of the PhD supervisors in the EATWELL project investigating food systems, ecology and health in Bhutan. 

Field of study

Public health nutrition   Clinical nutrition   Gastrointestinal infections   Micronutrient deficiencies   Breastfeeding/complementary feeding   Growth and development   Nutritional epidemiology

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Publications and research

Scientific publications

Terragni, Laura ; Løvhaug, Anne Lene ; Bjørkum, Ellen; Grönberg, Aysha; Bjerkheim, Siri; Lund-Iversen, Kaja; Morseth, Marianne S. (2025). Identifying preferences for sustainability labeling and measures to increase sustainable food consumption among Norwegian consumers. Food Quality and Preference. Vol. 134.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105673

Meltzer, Helle Margrete; Lund-Iversen, Kaja; Helleve, Arnfinn; Abel, Marianne Hope; Løvhaug, Anne Lene ; Morseth, Marianne S. ; Olsen, Hanne Fjerdingby; Ydersbond, Trond Arild; Klepp, Knut-Inge (2025). NewTools: a novel collaboration across the Norwegian food system with the aim of developing tools for food system transformation. Public Health Nutrition (PHN). Vol. 28.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s1368980025100785

Morseth, Marianne ; Henjum, Sigrun ; Terragni, Laura (2024). Self-perceived food literacy among staff in Norwegian childcare institutions. Norsk tidsskrift for ernæring (NTFE).
https://doi.org/10.18261/ntfe.22.2.2

Morseth, Marianne S. ; Gananathan, Siyamali; Henjum, Sigrun ; Terragni, Laura (2024). Transmission of food literacy to youth in Norwegian childcare institutions – a qualitative study. Food & Nutrition Research (FNR). Vol. 68.
https://doi.org/10.29219/fnr.v68.9803

Kifle, Mekdes; Terragni, Laura ; Morseth, Marianne S. (2024). Teachers’ perception of their students’ dietary habits in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study. BMC Nutrition. Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-024-00946-7

Henjum, Sigrun ; Rosendahl-Riise, Hanne; Morseth, Marianne S. ; Hevrøy, Thyra Jensen; Hjartåker, Anette; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv; Aakre, Inger (2024). Iodine nutrition in Community-dwelling Older Persons from Norway. Norsk tidsskrift for ernæring (NTFE). Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.18261/ntfe.22.4.2

Tørris, Christine ; Gjølstad, Eli ; Morseth, Marianne S. ; Debesay, Jonas ; Almendingen, Kari (2022). Students’ Experiences with Online Teaching and Learning in Norway: A Qualitative Study into Nutrition Education One Year after the COVID-19 Lockdown. Education Sciences. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12100670

Groufh-Jacobsen, Synne; Bugge, Annechen Bahr ; Morseth, Marianne S. ; Pedersen, Julia Tsuruta; Henjum, Sigrun (2022). Dietary Habits and Self-Reported Health Measures Among Norwegian Adults Adhering to Plant-Based Diets. Frontiers in Nutrition. Vol. 9.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.813482

Mazza, Marlene; Torheim, Liv Elin ; Morseth, Marianne (2022). Association between parental feeding practices and children’s dietary intake: a cross-sectional study in the Gardermoen Region, Norway. Food & Nutrition Research (FNR). Vol. 66.
https://doi.org/10.29219/fnr.v66.8050

Henjum, Sigrun ; Hjellset, Victoria Telle ; Andersen, Eivind; Flåten, Merethe Øyaland; Morseth, Marianne (2022). Developing a risk score for undiagnosed prediabetes or type 2 diabetes among Saharawi refugees in Algeria. BMC Public Health. Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13007-0



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Research reports

Morseth, Marianne S. (2019). Infant and young child feeding practices and associations between micronutrient adequacy, environmental enteric dysfunction and growth among 9-24 months old children in Nepal. ISBN: 9788283641714. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.



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Dissemination

Soterud, Siren; Løvhaug, Anne Lene ; Morseth, Marianne S. (2025). Nutri-score som virkemiddel for småbarnsforeldre - en kvalitativ studie. 42 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Petzold, Andrea; Terragni, Laura ; Morseth, Marianne S. (2025). Perceptions and preferences of Norwegian consumers and food industry actors in design for meta sustainability labelling - A qualitative study. 79 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Mwakilambo, Filbert Ally; Morseth, Marianne S. (2025). Noticeability, understanding and use of a comprehensive sustainability front-of-pack label in workplace canteens. A quantitative study. 49 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Lund-Iversen, Kaja; Løvhaug, Anne Lene ; Helleve, Arnfinn; Meltzer, Helle Margrete; Abel, Marianne Hope; Olsen, Hanne Fjerdingby; Morseth, Marianne ; Ydersbond, Trond Arild; Klepp, Knut Inge (2024). Engagement and involvement of partners in a collaborative research project for a sustainable food system – experiences from NewTools. 13th Nordic Nutrition Congress. Multi-national.

Morseth, Marianne (2024). Child malnutrition - Globally and in Bhutan. Public lecture . Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan (KGUMSB).

Morseth, Marianne S. ; Løvhaug, Anne Lene ; Bjørkum, Ellen; Bjerkheim, Siri; Lund-Iversen, Kaja; Terragni, Laura (2023). Arenas for healthy and sustainable food system transformation – consumer perspectives . ISBNPA. The International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physi.

Kvalem, Helen Engelstad; Almendingen, Kari ; Brevik, Asgeir ; Bye, Asta ; Garnweidner-Holme, Lisa; Henjum, Sigrun ; Løvhaug, Anne Lene ; Molin, Marianne; Morseth, Marianne S. ; Myhrstad, Mari ; Pettersen, Kjell Sverre ; Raael, Ellen ; Telle-Hansen, Vibeke ; Terragni, Laura ; Torheim, Liv Elin ; Kirkevold, Marit (2020). Mer ernæringskompetanse for helsepersonell vinner alle på!. Norsk tidsskrift for ernæring (NTFE).
https://www.ntfe.no/journal/2020/4/p-867/Mer_ern%C

Morseth, Marianne S. (2017). Tracking of complementary feeding practices among 9 to 24 month old children in Nepal - the MAL-ED birth cohort study. 4th International Conference on Nutrition and Growth. Kenes international organizers of congresses .



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