Rate My Professor Kozeta Miliku

Dr. Kozeta Miliku is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, a position she has held since May 2022. She obtained her Medical Doctorate in 2013 from the Medical University of Tirana in Albania. She earned a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 2017, with a thesis on early life nutrition, growth, and kidney function in children. Her postdoctoral research was conducted at the University of Manitoba from 2017 to 2020 and at McMaster University from 2020 to 2022, focusing on nutrition and genetics in the developmental origins of chronic diseases, including cardiometabolic health, asthma, and allergies in Canadian children.

At the University of Toronto, Dr. Miliku’s research examines the impact of nutrition across the life course, with primary focuses on preconception nutrition—particularly paternal diet—and nutrition during puberty and adolescence. Her work integrates clinical and nutritional epidemiology to study how diet and lifestyle influence multimorbidity risk, growth trajectories, cardiometabolic health, obesity, and respiratory conditions in children, drawing on cohorts such as the CHILD Cohort Study, where she serves as Clinical Science Officer. She is co-chair of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigeneity Committee of DOHaD Canada and teaches the course NFS382 on Vitamin & Mineral Metabolism Throughout the Life-Cycle. Selected honors include the Research Recognition Award from the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba in 2024, the Michelle Harkness Mentorship Award in 2020, and a Canadian Lung Association Fellowship from 2018 to 2020. Her recent publications address topics including ultraprocessed food consumption and obesity in children, dietary patterns, and associations from the CHILD Cohort Study.