Stephanie Martin
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Nutrition
slmartin@unc.edu
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Stephanie Martin’s research focuses on the evaluation of behavioral interventions to improve women's and children's nutrition, implementation research to improve nutrition programs, and mixed-methods research to examine barriers and facilitators to optimal infant feeding practices.
Dr. Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine multilevel factors that influence maternal and child nutrition practices and outcomes. She is currently examining fathers, grandmothers, and other family members support for infant care and feeding in Zambia; the infant feeding experiences of women working in the informal sector in urban Tanzania; and adolescent nutrition in an informal settlement in Kenya. She also conducts implementation research to understand barriers and facillitators to community nutrition programs in Zambia and to identify challenges health workers experience when providing lactation support to families in North Carolina. Her previous research in Kenya demonstrated the acceptability of community- and facility-based interventions to engage family members in maternal and child nutrition, and the positive relationship between social support and nutrition practices. Dr. Martin's research program has been informed by her decade-plus career as a global health practitioner, which focused on the design and implementation of behavioral interventions in low- and middle-income countries. She holds a PhD in Nutrition from Cornell University.
Associated Projects
- Improving smallholder poultry production and egg consumption in children under two in Ethiopia.
- USAID Advancing Nutrition Women's Empowerment Research