"Food & Social Environment Influences on Diet and Health: Identifying Pathways and Addressing Conundrums"

by Barbara Laraia, PhD, MPH, RD

Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 12:00-1:30 PM

UNM North Campus - Domenici Center West, Room 3110

Free and open to the public

Dr. Laraia is an Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition at UC Berkeley in the Division of Community Health and Human Development, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the UC, San Francisco Department of Medicine in the Division of Prevention Sciences.  She oversees a number of projects that investigate how human response to stress influences eating behaviors and metabolic outcomes. Her research program focuses on the influence of contextual level effects on dietary intake, cardiometabolic risk factors and pregnancy outcomes, especially among vulnerable populations.  Contextual level effects refer to the household food environment, namely household food insecurity, as well as the neighborhood or built environment measured as one's food, physical activity and social environment. The populations that Dr. Laraia focuses on most are pregnant women, children and adults with diabetes.

For additional information, please contact Miria Kano of the NM CARES Health Disparities Center at mkano@salud.unm.edu or 272-3876.