Lorraine Cordeiro

Lorraine Cordeiro

Professor of Nutrition
Director, Center for Research on Families

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

Location

Chenoweth Lab

100 Holdsworth Way
Amherst , MA 01003-9282
United States

210B Chenoweth

Lorraine Cordeiro  is a community-engaged scholar who studies the associations between food security, high-risk health behaviors, and hunger among adolescents and women in multiple social and cultural contexts. She validates food security assessment tools within vulnerable populations, with emphasis on refugee and immigrant communities. Cordeiro has worked extensively on behalf of women and children in underserved populations, from Lowell, Mass., to Tanzania, Bangladesh, and Cambodia. Her emerging research will leverage adolescence as an integral component of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Life Course Model. The MCH discourse currently focuses on pre- and postnatal care, fetal development, infancy, and early childhood, with limited attention on adolescence as a critical life stage. 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 Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award, Center for Research on Families Faculty Scholar, and the UMass Civic Engagement and Service Learning Faculty Fellow. She currently a 2016 Community Research Innovative Scholar at the University of Massachusetts 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.