Professor Alisa Welch

Ailsa Welch is a Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology researching the effects of nutrition on aging, based at The University of East Anglia Medical School. Ailsa’s research focuses on understanding the protective factors in diet for musculoskeletal health (sarcopenia, loss of skeletal muscle mass and function with age), osteoporosis and fracture risk. Ailsa has 212 peer-reviewed publications, an H Index of 77 (Scopus) and 21,000 citations. She is also a top 1% world researcher (Thompson Reuters, 2014).