Program in International Nutrition -- Faculty

Program in International and Community Nutrition

Faculty Members of PICN

Kathryn G. Dewey, Ph.D. (Interim Director)
Professor, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: kgdewey@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Maternal and child nutrition (determinants of lactation performance, impact of early nutrition on infant/child growth and development, impact of lactation on maternal nutritional status, national policies related to growth monitoring and breastfeeding promotion); economic and agricultural determinants of malnutrition in developing countries (nutritional consequences of commercial vs subsistence agriculture, migration/ resettlement, maternal employment/time allocation).

Lindsay H. Allen, Ph.D.
Director
USDA Western Human Resources, Nutrition Research Center
Research Professor and Professor Emeritus, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: lhallen@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Nutrition of pregnant and lactating women and of infants and children. Micronutrient deficiencies, including iron, zinc, riboflavin, folate and B

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Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anthropology
E-mail: mborgerhoffmulder@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Human behavioural ecology.

Kenneth H. Brown, M.D.

Professor, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: khbrown@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Nutrition of children and women in developing countries; interactions of nutrition and infection; prevention of micronutrient deficiencies, including iron, zinc, and vitamin A; assessment of vitamin A status.

Caroline Chantry, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
E-mail: caroline.chantry@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Research interests: HIV, growth, breastfeeding, micronutrients.

M.R.C Greenwood, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: mrcgreenwood@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: National science policy, obesity, diabetes, and women's health.

Marjorie Haskell, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Nutritionist, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: mjhaskell@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Bioavailability of vitamin A and carotenoids, assessment of vitamin A status, and food-based interventions for improving maternal and infant vitamin A status.

Lovell S. Jarvis, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
E-mail: lsjarvis@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Economic and other determinants of malnutrition in developing countries; food and nutrition strategies of developing countries, including agricultural and livestock policies.

Lucia Kaiser, Ph.D.
Community Nutrition Specialist, Department of Nutrition, Cooperative Extension
E-mail: llkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Effects of food insecurity and acculturation on the child-parent feeding relationship and preschooler nutrition; design and evaluation of nutrition education programs

Janet King, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: jking@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Calcium and zinc utilization, especially in relation to different physiological states, such as pregnancy, lactation, aging, or insufficient or excessive intakes.

Bo L. Lönnerdal, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: bllonnerdal@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Biochemistry and physiological function of human milk; effect of maternal factors on breast milk composition; infant nutrition; trace element metabolism; nutrient-nutrient interactions.

Joshua W. Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Adjunct Professor, Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
E-mail: jwmiller@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: B Vitamins (folate, vitamin B12, vitamin B6); homocysteine; neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's); hepatic tumorigenesis; diabetes; sickle cell disease; assessment of vitamin B12 status, absorption, and turnover.

Charles B. Stephensen, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: cstephensen@ucdavis.edu

Research interest: the relation between nutritional status and infectious diseases.

Marta Van Loan, Ph.D.
Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: mvanloan@whnrc.usda.gov

Research interest: Changes in body composition, body composition methods, effects of dietary interventions on bone metabolism, impact of eating behaviors on bone metabolism.

Stephen A. Vosti, Ph.D.

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Email: vosti@primal.ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Tropical deforestation, economic development, effects of policy action on human welfare, poverty-environmental links, population-environment links, climate-poverty links, bioeconomic models, environmental economics, and biodiversity policy

Emeritus

Louis E. Grivetti, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition
E-mail: legrivetti@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Historical and socio-cultural factors governing changes in human dietary patterns and the relations of these changes with the nutritional status of individuals and populations.

Charles H. Halsted, M.D.
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition
E-mail: chhalsted@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Intestinal absorption and malabsorption, regulation of enterocyte function, nutritional anemias.

Ernesto Pollitt, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics
E-mail: epollitt@ucdavis.edu

Research interests: Nutrition and behavioral development. Functional consequences of early supplementary feeding in nutritionally at-risk populations; long-term functional consequences of intrauterine growth retardation; effects of iron deficiency and helminthic infections on cognition and school performance; national policies regarding growth monitoring and breastfeeding promotion.

Fernando E. Viteri, M.D., D.Sc.Med
Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
E-mail: viter i@nature.b erkeley.edu

Research interest: Providing the scientific bases for possible interventions aimed at preventing and correcting human iron deficiency and other nutrient deficiencies that are responsible for nutritional anemias and other related conditions.

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