Dr. Uri Colón-Ramos, Associate Professor of Nutrition & Global Health Department of Global Health (primary) and Department of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, recently won the Nashman Faculty Development Grant. From her background in public affairs, nutrition, and sociological perspectives, Dr. Ramos “employs mixed methods to identify and understand the dietary determinants of underserved, at-risk populations, and to better inform nutrition policies and programs.”
Dr. Ramos is the “current co-Principal Investigator of Water UP! of the Avance Center Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health grant from the CDC, and the Principal Investigator of 'Water UP! Latino mothers and young children' and 'Shaping Our Kids’ Diets: Home and Neighborhood', and of studies that examine family environment, stress, and dietary risk factors for diabetes among Latinos/Hispanics.”
Recently, Dr. Ramos and other scholars published Foods Distributed During Federal Disaster Relief Response in Puerto Rico After Hurricane María Did Not Fully Meet Federal Nutrition Recommendations in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In the article, Ramos et al. find that “the registered dietitians were able to design meal plans that complied with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans food group recommendations, but they exceeded upper daily limits for sodium, saturated fat, or added sugars.” To access the article through Gelman Library, please click here. If unable to access the article, please click here.
We are honored to have Dr. Ramos serve as a Nashman Affiliate. To learn more about Community Engaged Scholarship course designation, please click here.
