Emily Seiger, BS

PhD Candidate
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

I am a PhD candidate in Nutrition at the University of North Carolina. My research prioritizes partnering with international communities at the community-level to co-create ideas for tackling the dual burden of malnutrition however it exists in the particular community that I am engaged with. I am working to equip myself methodologically with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods and advocate that as many projects as possible be mixed-methods to combine traditional scientific evidence with the critical community knowledge that comes from participatory qualitative exploration. I also believe it is critical that global nutrition researchers explore the role that colonization continues to play in the success and perception of nutrition interventions, particularly to understand the impact that participation in multiple programs or interventions over time, often juggling changing nutrition advice has on the success of each new project or intervention implemented.

Poster(s):

• (PO15-53-22) “We just eat this food because of hunger or because we cannot afford other foods”: Drivers of Adolescent Food Choice From the Perspectives of Adolescents and Influential Adults

• (PO15-54-22) Challenges Measuring All Forms of Malnutrition in Adolescence in Kenya: Varying Cut Offs for Obesity, Iron Deficiency, and Anemia Change the Prevalence of Malnutrition