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Angeline Jeyakumar

Assistant Professor

Summary

Angeline specializes in public health nutrition and has over 20 years of experience. Her broad research interests are maternal and child health. Her work among children concentrates on the epidemiology of undernutrition in underprivileged settings, its risk factors, and testing nutrition-sensitive and specific interventions. Including maternal health, her research focuses specifically on micronutrient deficiencies. She has intensively researched interventions for iron deficiency anemia and their sustainability through longitudinal studies.

Angeline joined Extension and the College's Department of Nutrition in 2023 as the Nutrition Specialist for northern ÁùºÏ±¦µä. In this role, Angeline develops and implements community-based interventions to reduce chronic-disease risk among Washoe County residents. She collaborates with others across the state to help ensure a seamless, complementary approach that reflects the unique characteristics of ÁùºÏ±¦µä. She also engages in collaborative research with universities in the country and abroad in specific areas such as food security, nutrition transition, and emerging dietary behaviors to benefit underserved and isolated communities.

Before joining Extension, Angeline taught post-graduate courses, coordinated the Integrative Dietetics Program, and conducted maternal and child health research at Savitribai Phule Pune University's School of Health Sciences in Maharashtra, India. Her research there focused on undernutrition, including the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies, such as Vitamin D and iron, and the evaluation of interventions to mitigate risk factors.

Publications

Abstracts

2024

Current Developments in Nutrition

Angeline Jeyakumar, Deepa Agrawal, Siddhi Deshpande, Devishree Dunna, Swapnil Godbharle, Hema Kesa, Anjali Radkar and Athreyee Sinha

Nutrition transition (NT) studies are yet to benefit from domains beyond the theoretical framework (TF). This gap is significant as health challenges have evolved with time. This paper aims to review...

Journals

2024

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Volume 56, Issue 8, Supplement 1, August 2024, Page S24

Angeline Jeyakumar, Sandra Nyarko, Jamie Benedict and Holly Gatzke

The purpose of this systematic scoping review was to characterize the challenges in the U.S. food banks and to identify areas for further research and intervention....

2023

Public Health Nutrition. 2023;26(12):3038-3040

Jeyakumar A, Kesa H, Godbharle S.

Newsletters

Healthy LIVING while aging! (2024-03)

2024

Extension | University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno, Newsletter

Jeykumar, A.

In honor of National Nutrition Month, we provide you with practical guidelines for a healthy lifestyle. Follow these simple dietary habits and physical activities to help prevent chronic disease. In...