Vassiliki Costarelli is an Associate Professor in Nutrition Behavior in the Department of Economics & Sustainable Development at Harokopio University, Athens, Greece. She was ex Head of Department (2022-2025) and Director of the Human Ecology Laboratory of the above Department (2019-2025). She is a Registered Dietitian and she has an MSc and a PhD in Nutrition from King’s College London, UK. Vassiliki Costarelli has worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer in Nutrition, Health and Exercise at Leeds University, Trinity College and at the Department of Applied Sciences, at London South Bank University from 1998 to 2005. Her research interests focus on factors that affect and form eating behavior in humans, sustainable diets, health and nutrition literacy, childhood obesity, emotional eating and nutrition and cancer. She has numerous publications, out of which, 70 articles published in peer review journals, more than 3137 citations and an h-index of 29 (google scholar). Vassiliki Costarelli is a reviewer in more than 20 international scientific journals and she has participated eighter as project manager, principal investigator or collaborative researcher focusing on health and sustainable eating behaviors in children and adolescents, nutrition education in special groups, food security and Health and Nutrition Literacy.

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Full list of publications:

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Selected publications:

• Kazantzidou P., Antonopoulou K., Costarelli V., Papanikolaou G. Environmental factors associated with autism spectrum disorder in Southern Europe: a systematic review (2025) International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 71 (1), pp. 30 – 40.
• Michalis A., Panagiotakos D.B., Papadopoulos A., Costarelli V. A qualitative exploration of immigrant’s experiences, practices and feelings about health‐care management, diet quality and food security issues, in Greece (2024) International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 20 (3), pp. 369 – 390.
• Mourouti N., Michou M., Lionis C., Kalagia P., Ioannidis A.G., Kaloidas M., Costarelli V. An educational intervention to improve health and nutrition literacy in hypertensive patients in Greece (2023) Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 12 (1), pp. 234.
• Costarelli V., Michou M. Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and prevention practice in Greece (2024) International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 62 (2), pp. 98 – 113,
• Costarelli V., Michou M., Svoronou E., Koutava N., Symvoulidou M., Anastasiou K., Abeliotis K. ‘Healthy Children, Healthy Planet’: A pilot school-based educational intervention (2022) Health Education Journal, 81 (2), pp. 183 – 195.
• Costarelli V., Michou M., Panagiotakos D.B., Lionis C. Parental health literacy and nutrition literacy affect child feeding practices: A cross-sectional study (2022) Nutrition and Health, 28 (1), pp. 59 – 68.
• Costarelli V., Michou M. Perceived stress negatively affects diet quality and life satisfaction during the COVID-19 lockdown period, in Greece (2023) Nutrition and Food Science, 53 (4), pp. 769 – 780
• Michalis A., Costarelli V. Food security research in selected Southern European and Eastern Mediterranean countries: a narrative review (2020) Nutrition and Food Science, 51 (4), pp. 690 – 703.
• Michou M., Panagiotakos D.B., Lionis C., Costarelli V. Socioeconomic inequalities in relation to health and nutrition literacy in Greece (2019) International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 70 (8), pp. 1007 – 1013.
• Michou M., Panagiotakos D.B., Lionis C., Costarelli V. Sex and age in relation to health and nutrition literacy levels in a sample of Greek adults (2020) International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 58 (5), pp. 229 – 241, Cited 6 times.
• Michou M., Panagiotakos D.B., Lionis C., Costarelli V. Health and nutrition literacy in adults: Links with lifestyle factors and obesity (2020) Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 13 (4), pp. 361 – 370,
• Michou M., Panagiotakos D.B., Mamalaki E., Yannakoulia M., Costarelli V. Development and validation of the Greek version of the comprehensive parental feeding questionnaire (2019) Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 12 (2), pp. 211 – 221.
• Abeliotis K., Lasaridi K., Costarelli V., Chroni C. The implications of food waste generation on climate change: The case of Greece (2015) Sustainable Production and Consumption, 3, pp. 8 – 14.
• Michalis A., Panagiotakos D.B., Costarelli V. Development validation of the Greek version of the adult food security survey module (2021) Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 14 (1), pp. 49 – 56
• Abeliotis K., Costarelli V., Anagnostopoulos K. The effect of different types of diet on greenhouse gas emissions in Greece (2016) International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 7 (1), pp. 36 – 49.