Barbara Laraia, PhD, MPH, RD
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.
Biography
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.
Research Interests
- Household food insecurity
- Food and social environment
- Health disparities
- Perinatal Epidemiology
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Dietary assessment methods
Education
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PhD – Nutrition
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1999 -
MPH – Nutrition
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994 -
BS – Hospital Dietetics
University of Illinois, 1984
Publications
Courses Taught
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- 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
Articles Featuring Barbara Laraia:
Berkeley Public Health student profile: Erica Resendiz
September 16, 2021
Time more important than increased funding when it comes to SNAP benefits
June 25, 2021
Attending the 11th annual Sugar, Stress, Environment & Weight Symposium
November 16, 2017
Our new Sacramento field study program
March 8, 2017
BPH spring research symposium
June 22, 2015