WILHEMINA  QUARPONG

Wilhemina is a doctoral student in the Nutrition & Health Sciences program at Emory University. With academic training in Nutrition, Food Science, and Public Health, her research interests and experience include using population-based approaches to reduce under- and over-nutrition especially among women and children in low-resource settings; and investigating how nutrition and food systems influence cardiometabolic health. Prior to joining Emory, she worked on an IDRC-funded project that focused on generating evidence for policy actions to improve the food environments of children.