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| Lauren Haldeman, PhD Faculty Member, Department of Nutrition, UNCG Tel: 336.256.0311 Email: lahaldem@uncg.edu |
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Lauren Haldeman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She completed both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Her research focused on assessing the nutrition needs and developing nutrition education materials and interventions for low income Latino caretakers. Prior to pursuing her graduate degrees, Dr. Haldeman was a nutrition educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension. These experiences helped to shape Dr. Haldeman’s current research interests.Dr. Haldeman’s area of research includes the development of theory based nutrition education interventions for low-income, immigrant and minority groups and secondary data analyses of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Specifically, she is interested in addressing food insecurity, nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. She has received funding from the USDA Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, Southern Rural Development Center and the Food Stamp Nutrition Education to carry out her research. Additionally, Dr. Haldeman collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of faculty researchers representing Public Health Education, Human Development and Family Studies and the Center for New North Carolinians to assess the availability of cultural adaptation resources for immigrants and refugees in Guilford County. This project was funded through UNCG’s Office of the Associate Provost for Research. Findings from this work were published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Dr. Haldeman has presented her work with immigrants at several national meetings including the Society for Nutrition Education, the Society for Applied Anthropology and Experimental Biology.
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