Marly A. Cardoso is Professor at the School of Public Health (SPH) of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and Experimental Nutrition from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences/USP. At USP, she served as the Director of the country’s first graduate program in Public Health Nutrition (2006-2010), the President of Research Committee of SPH/USP (2018-2022), and a research member of the Center for Epidemiological Studies in Health and Nutrition of the University of Sao Paulo (NUPENS, http://nupensusp.wix.com/nupens ). She was a Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (2012).
Expertise: Experience in dietary assessment methods, dietary data analysis, design, development, and analysis of nutritional surveys. Dr. Cardoso is the Principal Investigation for research projects funded by FAPESP and CNPq in Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health: "MINA-Brazil birth cohort study in Western Brazilian Amazon"; “Dietary intake and blood levels of micronutrients: association with cervical cancer and preneoplastic lesions”; “Clinical trial on nutritional interventions among adults at high-risk for diabetes type 2”; “Dietary habits and risk factors for adenomas: case-control, hospital-based study”; and “Development of a dietary assessment method for people of Japanese ancestry living in Brazil”.
Considering the nutritional transition in Brazil, she has been working on nutritional surveys in the Amazon region. In child health, she has been describing health and nutritional conditions in Amazonian counties with socioeconomic indicators that are substantially lower than the national average. The fieldwork has been done with the participation of community health workers, nursing students from Federal University of Acre, and health professionals with training and local supervision by her research team. Her research team has been working in the assessment of environmental conditions and child health status (including assessment of anthropometric indices, biochemical indicators and morbidities - diarrhea, respiratory diseases and other infections), and providing basic health information and training for health workers, mothers and children. Additional information in Portuguese can be found at the sites: http://www.fsp.usp.br/mina/ http://www.frutosnorte.blogspot.com
She was also the Principal Investigator for the research project entitled Effectiveness of home fortification with vitamins and minerals for the prevention of iron deficiency and anemia in infants younger than 1 year of age: a multi-center study of Brazilian cities (ENFAC – Estudo Nacional de Fortificacao caseira da Alimentacao Complementar saudavel), supported by the Ministry of Health of Brazil, CNPq and UNICEF. Additional information in Portuguese at the website http://nutricao.saude.gov.br/estudo_fortificacao.php