Sinead McCarthy

Dr Sinéad McCarthy holds a PhD in Public Health Nutrition from University College Cork and is a Senior Research Officer at Teagasc where she is responsible for leading the research programme regarding consumer food behaviours.

For more than two decades, Sinéad has been involved in many areas of nutrition research, with a focus on food and health. Sinéad’s research career has ranged from human nutritional physiology and public health nutrition, designing and managing national food consumption programmes and consumer behaviour.

Sinéad has extensive experience working on a range of National and European funded research projects addressing food choice motivation and health, healthy aging and nutrition for senior consumers and food sustainability.  In the area of sustainability, Sinéad is researching sustainable food consumption patterns, sustainable dietary guidelines, as well as additional food sustainability measures such as food waste behaviours and organic food purchasing behaviours. 

Sinéad has published extensively in peer review journals and widely disseminated her research both national and internationally across a diverse range of audiences from government officials to primary school children!

Sinéad contributes to national food policy issues as a committee member the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and was a former board member of Safefood.  Sinéad was vice chair of the European Sensory Science Society (2019-2021). Sinéad also currently sits on the EU expert group on general food law and sustainability of food systems.