Sonia Vega-López, PhD

Associate Professor
Arizona State University

Sonia Vega-López, PhD is an Associate Professor in Nutrition in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. She received her doctorate in nutritional sciences from the University of Connecticut (2002) and completed her postdoctoral training in the Laboratory for Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Research at University of California-Davis Medical Center (2002-2003) and the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Jean Mayer U.S.D.A. Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (2003-2006). Dr. Vega-López is a bilingual and bicultural researcher focusing on studying the role of lifestyle factors, particularly those related to diet and physical activity, on the prevention of chronic diseases, and the effects of family-based interventions for diet quality improvement among Hispanic individuals. Within ASN, Dr. Vega-López is the current Chair for the Minority and Diversity Affairs Committee.

Poster(s):

• (PO20-07-22) Household Factors Associated With Home Food Availability Among Latinx Families With Middle School-Aged Children

• (PO22-38-22) Associations of Diet Patterns and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Factors Among Mexican Women in the Sonora-Arizona Transborder Region