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Ph.D., Professor, Nutrition Dr. Adair's Curriculum Vitae
CPC Office: 405-F Univ Sq East
CPC Phone Number: (919) 966-4449
Email: linda_adair@unc.edu |
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Linda Adair is a biological anthropologist interested in factors influencing the health and nutrition of women, infants, and children in developing countries. She is the principal investigator of longitudinal follow-up surveys of the ongoing Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey. Adair focuses on the long term health and functional consequences of early child nutrition. She is also involved in collaborative research on obesity in African American infants and US adolescents and young adults, as well as maternal nutrition, breast-feeding and HIV and Malawi. |
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts:
• Modeling the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Risk Factors
• Gene-Environment Interactions and Weight Gain
• Demographic Data Sharing and Archiving
• Relating multiple dimensions of stress to CVD risk in Filipino adults
• Prenatal Nutrition and Adverse Birth Outcomes in HIV-infected women in Malawi
• Obesity Development and CVD Risk Factor Clustering in Filipino Women & Offspring
• Monitoring Social Change: Health, Reproduction, Aging
• Improving nutritional status and health of infants and lactating women through the use of Lipid Based Nutrition Supplements (LNS): Evidence from a longitudinal, randomized trial in Lilongwe, Malawi
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Information updated on 02/05/2009 |
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