Role and contribution
Truss is trained in nutrition and epidemiology during her Masters ‘Nutrition and Health' at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She graduated in 2008 with honours. During her Masters she has worked on several cohort studies, i.e. the Rotterdam study (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), the 1946 British Birth Cohort (Cambridge, UK), and the GEO-HEBON study (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). In 2008 the Wageningen University appointed her as PhD-student on a project about diet and type 2 diabetes.