Michelle Mendez
Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Nutrition
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Email: mmendez@email.unc.edu
Dr. Mendez is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research has focused on dietary intakes in relation to health outcomes, primarily obesity and related chronic diseases. She has a particular interest in methodological strategies for improving the measurement and analysis of dietary factors, including approaches to reduce error and bias. The goal of her work is to gain greater insights on the role of diet in health, and in diet-related health disparities, by increasing the validity of dietary measures, as well as assessing synergies with non-dietary factors to understand their joint contribution to health outcomes, trajectories and disparities. In addition to food groups and diet patterns, she conducts research on food-borne contaminants, in an effort to better understand synergies within the food chain, including pathways through which beneficial dietary components may help to modify health risks of contaminant exposures. In addition to etiology, her research explores inequalities in dietary intakes and contaminant exposures that may contribute to health disparities, and has included efforts to harmonize and calibrate intake data to conduct more valid comparative analyses.
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