Elena Carbone
Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition | School of Public Health & Health Sciences
Associate Dean for Curriculum & Academic Oversight, Commonwealth Honors College
Scholars Project Title: “Multi-Center Study Exploring Women’s Perceptions of Health Literacy Needs and Support during Prenatal, Intrapartum, and Postnatal Periods”
Dr. Carbone’s work integrates theory informed, behavioral interventions into community-based settings to promote health and prevent disease among low income multiethnic groups with low literacy skills. Dr. Carbone will use her residency in the ISSR Scholars Program to support writing a grant application to the National Institutes of Health to examine how mothers’ and their health care workers’ health literacy levels are related to use of and perceptions about support needed during the prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods.