Academic Background & Scholarship

Education

• PhD, Nutrition Epidemiology – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• AB, Molecular Biology, Minor in Environmental Studies – Princeton University, USA
• Visiting Scholar – The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
• IB – United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, UK

Publications

1. Impact of a Municipal Policy Restricting Trans Fatty Acid Use in NYC Restaurants on Serum Trans Fatty Acid Levels in Adults – AJPH, 2019
2. Trajectories of Protein Intake from 2 to 22 Years and Their Association with BMI in Early Adulthood – Br J Nutr, 2017
3. Breastfeeding Modifies the Impact of Diarrhoeal Disease on Relative Weight – Matern Child Nutr, 2016
4. Association of Early Breastfeeding Patterns and Infant Morbidity with Later Obesity Risk – J Nutr, 2016
5. Dietary Diversity and Breastfeeding Status with Weight and Length in Filipino Infants – Public Health Nutr, 2015
6. Nutrition Behaviors and Obesity in Caribbean Undergraduate Students – Rev Panam Salud Publica, 2015
7. Macroinvertebrate Colonization of Artificial Substrates in a South African Lentic Environment – Afr J Aquat Sci, 2013

Oral Presentations

• American Society of Nutrition, San Diego (2016) – Protein Intake and Breastfeeding Effects on BMI
• Health Promoting Universities Conference, Canada (2015) – Nutrition and Obesity in Caribbean Students
• American Society of Nutrition, Boston (2015) – Breastfeeding and Diarrhea Impact on Infant Size

Poster Presentations

• Epidemiology Congress of the Americas, Miami (2016) – Latent Class Trajectories of Protein Intake
• ASN, Boston (2015) – Breastfeeding and Infant Size (Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Poster Winner)
• ASN, San Diego (2014) – Dietary Diversity and Breastfeeding in Filipino Infants