Margaret E. Bentley
Ph.D., Professor, Nutrition Associate Dean for Global Health, School of Public Health Dr. Bentley's Curriculum Vitae CPC Office: 308-E Univ Sq East CPC Phone Number: (919) 966-9575 Campus Office: 2208 McGavran-Greenberg Campus Phone Number: (919) 843-9962 Email: pbentley@unc.edu
Margaret Bentley, Professor of Nutrition and Associate Dean for Global Health, is a medical anthropologist whose research focuses on women and infant's nutrition, infant and young child feeding, behavioral research on sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and community-based interventions for nutrition and health. She has expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods and the application of these for program development and evaluation. She currently is working on an HIV behavioral intervention prevention study in Chennai, India; on a community-based intervention to improve child growth and development in Andhra Pradesh, India; on an intervention to decrease maternal to child transmission of HIV during breastfeeding in Malawi; and she directs a five year, longitudinal study to examine risk factors for the development of pediatric obesity in North Carolina.
Current CPC Grants and Contracts: • The Feasibility of Replacement Feeding as an HIV Prevention Method in Malawi • Dietary Patterns and Obesity Risk among Latino Infants & Toddlers in North Carolina • Dynamically Integrating Macro and Micro Processes • 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
Information updated on 03/18/2009