Angela Bermudez-Millan
Research Area(s) of Interest:
Nutrition and Health Policy
Dr. Bermúdez-Millán, PhD, MPH, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences. She received her MPH and PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut. As a public health nutritionist researcher, her interest is to better understand and intervene on the social determinants of health, including food insecurity and its effects in cardiometabolic risk markers. She is the Principal Investigator of the “Monthly Cycling of Food Insecurity and Diabetes Risk (Food Insecurity Cycling-FIC) study. This longitudinal study is examining impact of food insecurity as it unfolds over the course of the month, to demonstrate changes in household food insecurity, dietary quality, emotional eating, binge-eating, mental distress worsens and diabetes markers. Dr. Bermúdez-Millán is also Co-PI in a pilot study, gathering quantitative and qualitative data to inform the design of a community-based intervention promoting appropriate and healthy weight through increased fruit and vegetables consumption among overweight/obese, low-income children participating in the WIC program. Dr. Bermúdez-Millán was Co-Investigator in the Diabetes Risk Reduction Through Eat, Walk, Sleep and Medication Therapy Management for Depressed Cambodians (DREAM) study, leading the community health worker nutrition intervention.
