Geraldine Moreno, Ph.D.; C.N.S.- Home Page

Geraldine Moreno (PhD; CNS) is a Full Professor and has been employed at the UO since  1974. 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 a Byrd Foundation study investigating the role of Vitamin B on cognitive ability in elderly Hispanics. Dr. Moreno is 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 relationship among gender, cultural and economic transformation, and food habits, and she also has collaborated with Dr. Carla Guerron-Montero on a project exploring how women in female-headed households and dual/male-headed households cope with food insecurity and hunger. Dr. Moreno has publications in Ecology of Food and Nutrition; Qualitative Health Research; The Journal of Ethnobiology, Agriculture and Human Values.