Manolo Mazariegos

I am a researcher at the INCAP Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases. I have a strong training in nutritional epidemiology and epidemiological methods. I have more than 12 years of experience in the identification and analysis of health problems from a life-course perspective and in the analysis of complex longitudinal data as I have worked with population-based cohorts in Guatemala, Mexico and France. My research focuses on the epidemiology of all forms of malnutrition, the design and evaluation of programs and policies to improve population nutrition, maternal and child health, the epidemiology of pregnancy, women’s reproductive health across the life-course, breastfeeding, and the identification of nutritional, metabolic and lifestyle risk factors for the development of obesity and diabetes. I have lead multi-center studies on breastfeeding and body composition and on inequities in all forms of malnutrition in Latin America. Currently, I have been collaborating with research teams and institutions to study how social and urban factors affect health.