Margaret E. Bentley

Ph.D., Professor, Nutrition
Associate Dean for Global Health, School of Public Health

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CPC Office: 308-E CPC East
CPC Phone Number: (919) 966-9575

Campus Office: 124 Rosenau Hall
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.

Related CPC Signature Themes:

• Fertility, Families, and Children

• Population Movement, Diversity, and Inequality

• Sexual Behavior, Contraceptive Use, and Reproductive Health

Current CPC Grants and Contracts:

• 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 2/18/2013