Maternal and Child Nutrition and Health
The optimal infant feeding practice is breastfeeding. Breast milk not only has macro and micronutrients that support a child’s growth and health, it also has non-nutritive components that support the child’s immune system.
Food access, nutrition and health
Studying and evaluating efforts to increase access to healthy foods is an important part of my program, because it affects nutritional and health outcomes.
Nutrition and health of the farm worker population
Latinos experience higher rates of obesity than Whites do, with even higher rates in rural areas. Rural populations face unique environmental conditions because of its isolated location, the limited infrastructure and resources available.