Registered dietitian and doctoral student in the InSyNC doctoral program. My research interest is the social and nutritional aspects of food insecurity among adolescents.
Food insecurity implies a “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways”. This is a growing concern not only in third-world countries but also in welfare countries like Sweden.
Research questions that I am interested in are:
- how adolescents manage food and meals in their daily lives, and
- how their energy and nutrient intake corresponds to the nutritional recommedations.
Understanding these social and nutritional aspects can contribute to knowledge that enables society to better support adolescents in food insecurity, and thereby reduce the negative effects of food insecurity on, for example, their future health.
I am a reg. dietitian from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (Colombia). My bachelor´s thesis was in the area food insecurity in families living on the country side in Colombia. I have a master's degree in Public Health from Umeå University. I have worked as a clinical and community dietitian in Colombia with focus on children and adolescents; and in Sweden, as clinical dietitian with focus on pediatrics for the past six years.