Ann Arbor MI 3/14/12 3/14/12 NIEHS/EPA Children's Environmental Health Center's 'Perinatal Exposures, Epigenetics, Child Obesity & Sexual Maturation' hosts Daniela Sotres-Alvarez.

Event

Modeling Change in Dietary Patterns

March 14, 2012
1 - 2:30 p.m.
SPH I Auditorium, Room 1755
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Sponsored by NIEHS/EPA Children's Environmental Health Center
Contact Information: Lisa Marchlewicz, Email: marcheh@umich.edu, Phone: 734-647-3084

More Information: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/cehc/home

NIEHS/EPA Children's Environmental Health Center's 'Perinatal Exposures, Epigenetics, Child Obesity & Sexual Maturation' presents guest speaker Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Dr.P.H., Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill speaking on 'Modeling Change in Dietary Patterns'.

Many current public health interventions target the way people eat. However, current methods of dietary analysis are rudimentary and not able to capture details of dietary change over time. Dr. Daniela Sotres-Alvarez has pioneered more eloquent statistical methods for improved characterization of these changes. In this guest lecture, Dr. Sotres-Alvarez will explain how latent class models can be used to derive and study dietary patterns over time.