Professor
Community Health Sciences
- Chair, Public Health Nutrition Program
Barbara Laraia is a Professor of Community Health Sciences whose research focuses on the influence of contextual level effects on dietary intake, cardiometabolic risk factors and pregnancy outcomes, especially among vulnerable populations.
Barbara Laraia is a Professor of Community Health Sciences at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Laraia’s research program focuses on the influence of contextual level effects on dietary intake, cardiometabolic risk factors and pregnancy outcomes, especially among vulnerable populations. Contextual level effects refer to the household food environment, namely household food insecurity, as well as the neighborhood or built environment measured as one’s food, physical activity and social environment.
- PhD – Nutrition, University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1999
- MPH – Nutrition, University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994
- BS – Hospital Dietetics, University of Illinois, 1984
- Household food insecurity
- Food and social environment
- Health disparities
- Perinatal Epidemiology
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Dietary assessment methods
- PH 206: Critical Issues in Public Health Nutrition
- PH 206B: Food and Nutrition Policies and Programs
- PH 206C: Nutritional Epidemiology
- PH 207A: Public Health Aspects of Maternal and Child Nutrition
- PH 292.003: Integrated Learning Experience