Marly A. Cardoso holds a PhD in Food Science and Experimental Nutrition from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a Qualified University Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she is Associate Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the University of São Paulo (USP) School of Public Health. She is currently research member of the Center for Epidemiological Studies in Health and Nutrition of the University of Sao Paulo (NUPENS, http://nupensusp.wix.com/nupens ), and in 2012 she was Lemann Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Considering the nutritional transition in Brazil, she has been working on nutritional surveys in the Amazon region. In child health, she has been describing health and nutritional conditions in Amazonian counties with socioeconomic indicators that are substantially lower than the national average. The fieldwork has been done with the participation of community health agents, nursing students from Federal University of Acre, and university level health professionals with training and local supervision by her research team. Her research team has been working in the assessment of environmental conditions and child health status (including assessment of anthropometric indices, biochemical indicators and morbidities - diarrhea, respiratory diseases and other infections), and providing basic health information and training for health workers, mothers and children, including cooking workshops to increase the consumption of local fruits and vegetables. She is the Principal Investigator for the research project entitled Effectiveness of home fortification with vitamins and minerals for the prevention of iron deficiency and anemia in infants younger than 1 year of age: a multi-center study of Brazilian cities (ENFAC – Estudo Nacional de Fortificacao caseira da Alimentacao Complementar saudavel), supported by the Ministry of Health of Brazil, CNPq and UNICEF.

assessment of environmental conditions and child health status (including assessment of anthropometric indices, biochemical indicators and morbidities - diarrhea, respiratory diseases and other infections), and providing basic health information and training for health workers, mothers and children, including cooking workshops to increase the consumption of local fruits and vegetables.