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Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina
Dr. Leila Larson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Larson has an MPH from Columbia University and a PhD in Nutrition from Emory University. Her work in the fields of nutrition and global health has focused on finding innovative ways to improve early childhood development and health in low- and middle-income settings and novel ways of measuring nutritional and functional outcomes. She has worked on several nutrition trials in pregnancy and childhood in countries such as Liberia, India, Bangladesh, and Malawi.