Lorraine Cordeiro

Lorraine Cordeiro

Professor of Nutrition
Director, Center for Research on Families

Food security, adolescent health and nutrition, undernutrition, refugees/Immigrants

Location

Arnold House

715 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

242 Arnold House

Dr. Cordeiro studies the associations between food security, high-risk health behaviors, and nutritional outcomes in multiple social and cultural contexts. Her research applies principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), leveraging the insights of communities and helping to build their research capital. Dr. Cordeiro is the recipient of several distinguished awards and fellowships, including the Tufts University Presidential Award for Citizenship and Public Service, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, UMass Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UMass Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award, SPHHS College Outstanding Teacher Award, Center for Research on Families Family Research Scholar, Civic Engagement and Service Learning Faculty Fellow, and was a Community Research Innovative Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

Education

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), Wellesley Centers for Women
  • PhD, Tufts University
  • MPH, Tulane University
  • BA, Mount Holyoke College

Key Publications

Cordeiro LS, Wilde PE, Semu H, and Levinson FJ. Household food security is inversely associated with undernutrition among adolescents from Kilosa, Tanzania. Journal of Nutrition. 2012. 142(9):1741-1747.

Cordeiro LS. Household dietary diversity, wild edible plants, and diarrhea among rural households in Tanzania. Journal of Medicinally Active Plants. 2012. 1(3):98-105.

Cordeiro LS, Lamstein S, Mahmud Z, and Levinson FJ. Adolescent malnutrition in developing countries: a close look at the problem and at two national experiences. United Nations. SCN News. Late 2005-Early 2006. 31:6-13.