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IAMO scientist honoured with Luther certificate

In July 2016, Christine Burggraf was honoured by University Halle-Wittenberg with the Luther certificate for her outstanding research on the topic “Russian Demand for Dietary Quality: Nutrition Transition, Diet Quality Measurement, and Health Investment Theory”. The scientist completed her dissertation in May 2016 with the highest honours “summa cum laude”.

In her work, Christine Burggraf describes the development of Russian dietary patterns in the course of the post-socialist transformation, searches for reasons for the choice of healthier dietary patterns using newly developed methods, and offers several recommendations for measures to improve diet quality. The increasing prevalence of obesity and diet-related chronic illnesses is a key problem for Russian households and healthcare systems. Study results show that in addition to prices, income and other socio-economic influencing factors, the current state of health as well as the consumer’s time preference – through the trade-off between individual preferences for sweet, fatty and salty foods and the associated, future diet-related health risks – influence demand decisions for healthier dietary patterns.

Christine Burggraf was supervised by the institute’s Director Thomas Glauben at IAMO and by the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of the University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.