Martinette Streppel is senior lecture-researcher at the Nutrition and Exercise research group, affiliated with the Nutrition and Dietetics programme at 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 Nutrition and Exercise research group, Martinette works as a project leader on projects focusing on healthy eating, physical activity and sleep behaviour in (young) children, supporting their healthy development. Parents/caregivers, professionals in childcare 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.

Within MetaHealth, Martinette is the lead of work package 5: Complex interventions.