MILENA NARDOCCI
Milena has a background in Nutrition from the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, her home country, and a Master’s in Public Health from the Université de Montréal. She presently works at CIENS as a data analyst in the project “Food, Environment, Health and Nutrition of First Nations Children and Youth” (FEHNCY), an interdisciplinary study that aims to assess the health and nutrition of First Nations children and youth living on-reserve in Canada. Before that, she was involved in the project “Maximizing use of existing data to strengthen program design, evaluation and impact” (MaxData) which the main goal was to identify indicators related to maternal and child health that could be estimated using publically available data in the context of low- and middle-income countries.
Her main research interests include how our food environment, access, choices, and consumption vary across different socio-economic and demographic groups, and how they impact people’s health, especially in vulnerable populations. During her master’s and past work experiences, she studied how consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with diet-related chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension in the Canadian population. Milena has over four years of experience working with data management, quantitative analysis, and dietary intake assessment, using population-based health and nutrition surveys, including the the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and other national surveys such as the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).
Link to publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UiOhgpUAAAAJ
Her main research interests include how our food environment, access, choices, and consumption vary across different socio-economic and demographic groups, and how they impact people’s health, especially in vulnerable populations. During her master’s and past work experiences, she studied how consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with diet-related chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension in the Canadian population. Milena has over four years of experience working with data management, quantitative analysis, and dietary intake assessment, using population-based health and nutrition surveys, including the the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and other national surveys such as the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).
Link to publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UiOhgpUAAAAJ
