Thursday 3 February 2011

Our research team

We are a group of Human Biologists, Anthropologists, Human Ecologists and Nutritionists who  study child growth and health in several parts of the world.
The BEMICELU project has been running in Mérida, Mexico since January 2010. We aim to identify several components of early life malnutrition that lead to health impairments (especially overweight/obesity) in adulthood.

The project leader is Dr Inês Varela-Silva (http://myprofile.cos.com/inesvs)

The other members are:

Prof Barry Bogin (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/academic/barry-bogin.html)
Dr. Federico Dickinson (http://www.mda.cinvestav.mx/personal_eco/dickinson.htm)
Ms Hannah Wilson (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/research-students/hannah-wilson.html)
Mr Hugo Azcorra (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/research-students/hugo-azcorra.html).

We are based at the Centre for Global Health and Human Development - Loughborough University (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/research/centres-institutes/global-health/index.html) and at the Centre for Human Ecology - CINVESTAV Mérida, Mexico (http://www.mda.cinvestav.mx/eh02.htm).


This project has been financed by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (http://www.wennergren.org/) and by the Santander Bank.

Some photos of the fieldwork (February-July 2010)


Inês and three little girls


Inês, Hannah and four of our participants


During the Spring Festival in one of the schools. Beautiful

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