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Cristina Alvarez

Behavioral nutrition doctoral student

Cristina is a doctoral student at Teachers College Columbia University specializing in Behavioral Nutrition. She has worked as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations for four years on consumer education and capacity building projects in nutrition education, in particular supporting a network of nutrition educators in Latin America (the RED ICEAN) and updating FAO’s new dietary guidelines website. Cristina has a BA Sc in Nutrition and Dietetics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and a Masters in Nutrition and Public Health from Wageningen University (The Netherlands). She is originally from Madrid, Spain.

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