Barry M. Popkin
Ph.D., Professor, Nutrition
Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition
Dr. Popkin's Curriculum Vitae
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Email: popkin@unc.edu
Dr. Barry M. Popkin, the Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition, has a Ph.D. in economics and is Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where he directs the UNC-CH's Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity. Dr. Popkin has an active U.S. research program in understanding dietary behavior with a focus on eating patterns, trends, and sociodemographic determinants; the nutrition transition and the rapid changes in obesity; dynamic changes in diet, physical activity and inactivity; body composition changes (and the factors responsible for these changes); consequences of these changes; and program and policy options for managing change. He is not only actively involved in research in the United States, but is also active in a number of other NIH-funded studies of countries around the world including detailed longitudinal studies that he directs in China and Russia and related work in Brazil and several other countries. His US work includes a series of NIH grants to study how socioeconomic change linked with shifts in the built environment affect diet, activity and obesity in the ADD Health and a second 20-year long longitudinal study-CARDIA. Dr. Popkin serves on several scientific advisory organizations and is Chair, the Nutrition Transition Committee for the International Union for the Nutritional Sciences. He has published more than 280 journal articles, book chapters, and books. He is author of the new book The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products that are Fattening the Human Race (Penguin).
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