Linda S. Adair

Ph.D., Professor, Nutrition

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Email: linda_adair@unc.edu

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.

Related CPC Signature Themes:

• Biological and Social Interactions

• Fertility, Families, and Children

• Life Course Perspectives

Current CPC Grants and Contracts:

• Demographic Data Sharing and Archiving

• Emergence of Cardiometabolic Risk Across the Lifecycle in China

• Gene-Environment Interactions and Weight Gain

• Heterogeneity in Cardiometabolic Risk with Obesity: Who Is at Risk?

• 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

• Modeling the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Risk Factors

• Monitoring Social Change: Health, Reproduction, Aging

• Multidimensional pathways to healthy aging among Filipino women

• Relating multiple dimensions of stress to CVD risk in Filipino adults

Information updated on 3/12/2012