Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois Chicago
Larelle Bookhart is a Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Postdoctoral Fellow. She completed her BSPH in Health Policy and Management and her MPH in Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. Additionally, Larelle is a Registered Dietitian and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Her areas of interest include nutritional risk factors for adverse health outcomes and health care system factors that may reduce health disparities. She worked as a county level director of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in Halifax County, NC. Her doctoral research at Emory University in Nutrition and Health Sciences focused on the determinants of early infant feeding practices in hospitals. This included examining how health care system policies and practices may modify breastfeeding outcomes, particularly among historically marginalized populations.