Geraldine
Moreno (PhD; CNS)is a Professor Emerita at the University
of Oregon and Senior Research Associate at
Oregon Research Institute (ORI).Her
research is located at the intersection of
nutritional anthropology, human biology and
medical anthropology. She is a member of a
research team working on a NIH funded community
based participatory project focused on childhood
obesity prevention. She is also actively engaged
in research on elementary school food issues and
child obesity. Dr. Moreno has been a consultant
on a Fogarty International Training Program in
AIDS & TB in the Department of Epidemiology
and Public Health, at the University of Miami
Leonard H, Miller School of Medicine. Her
previous research in northeastern Thailand
focused on the relationships among gender,
cultural and economic transformation, and food
habits, and she also has collaborated on
research focusing on food insecurity and hunger
in Thailand, Ecuador and the U.S. Dr. Moreno has
publications in such journals as: Journal of
School Health, Pediatric Obesity, Ecology of
Food and Nutrition; Qualitative Health Research;
The Journal of Ethnobiology, Agriculture and
Human Values.
