Presentations

Infant Feeding, Nutrition, and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Odyssey

Margaret E. Bentley, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Bentley’s Kellogg International Global Nutrition award lecture will discuss three broad themes related to early nutrition and child development. This includes her personal journey of becoming a nutritional anthropologist. She will discuss the importance of using mixed methods and a holistic ecological framework; forging interdisciplinary collaborations in nutrition and child development and nutrition and infectious disease; and the importance of research that focuses on both under and over-nutrition.