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Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Faculty Associate
College of Nutrition and Health Promotion
E-mail: selinesq@asu.edu
Szkupinski Quiroga is a medical anthropologist with a commitment to community
based participatory research, and a research focus on health disparities
and the lived experience of illness among vulnerable populations as revealed
through narratives. Since arriving at ASU, she has worked on establishing
community relationships within South Phoenix, and identifying issues of
concern. In response, she is collaborating with ASU faculty to examine
familial, peer and environmental influences on diet, physical activity
and obesity risk. Specifically, she is currently leading efforts to develop
culturally appropriate metrics of food environments as a more effective
way of evaluating food security and nutritional quality among Latino populations.
In particular, she is interested in objective measures that identify strengths
as well as points of intervention, and integrate consideration of walkability,
food advertising, and other factors amenable to change. This effort is
part of a larger project to examine differential individual and household
patterns of interaction with urban environments. Subsequent phases will
include the collection of migration and coping narratives, and the development
of an intervention targeting youth at risk of diabetes.
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