Christine Thomson

Christine Dumont Thomson is a New Zealand nutritionist and academic, and is professor emerita at the University of Otago. Before her retirement in 2010 she researched iodine and selenium dietary deficiencies.

Academic career

Thomson completed a Bachelor and Master of Health Science and a PhD at the University of Otago. Her doctoral dissertation was on the importance of selenium in the diet. Thomson joined the faculty of the university in 1976, rising to full professor in 2006.

Thomson's research focused on iodine and selenium in the diet, but she also had an interest in sports nutrition. Iodised salt became available in New Zealand in 1939, but Thomson's research in the 1990s showed that iodine deficiency was once again a problem in New Zealand.

Thomson is retired from teaching and research, and was appointed professor emerita at Otago in 2010.

Selected works