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Healthy diets in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Developing curriculum to address malnutrition and promote healthy eating

Many low-income countries face multiple burdens of malnutrition, including persistent undernutrition alongside obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, in many of these settings, guidance to address malnutrition has focused primarily on undernutrition.  In collaboration with partners at Weill-Cornell Center for Global Health and the GHESKIO Centers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, we seek to develop context-sensitive nutrition education materials to promote healthy diets in adults, including among patients and healthcare staff, in order to address the increasing prevalence of obesity and non-communicable diseases. In partnership with the nutrition team at GHESKIO, Cornell students are working remotely to identify typical dietary patterns in Port-au-Prince, explore existing best practice recommendations to promote healthy diets and adapt those materials for the Haitian context.

Topics: Health, Nutrition and Medicine

The Team

  • Elizabeth Fox, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences and Master of Public Health Program

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  • Shannon McLeod, Department of Biology and Society, and Master of Public Health

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences '19, Graduate School '21

  • Diego Burga, Biological Sciences

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences '21

  • Kimberly St. Fleur, Global and Public Health Sciences

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences '21

  • Community partner:  Les Centres GHESKIO

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Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.

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