She is also a faculty fellow at the Centre for Diet and Activity Research at the University of Cambridge. She has advanced training in pediatric and public health nutrition and experience coordinating epidemiologic and community-based intervention studies. Her current research focuses on early childhood obesity prevention and community and family health promotion, with studies in the United States, Mexico, England, and Kenya. She received her PhD and MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School.