Research Bio
Research: The epidemiology of growth and nutrition in children, particularly malnutrition and obesity in children and adolescents, assessment of nutritional status, and societal determinants of nutritional conditions. Dr. Fernandez is a nutritional epidemiologist interested in the two ends of the nutritional status continuum. She has examined the determinants of wasting and stunting in children in developing countries using data from the World Health Organization. Dr. Fernandez is currently focusing in weight gain prevention and obesity in the United States. In particular, Dr. Fernandez is interested in the synergism between individual nutrition and physical activity behaviors and the environment.
She is currently conducting a group-randomized trial testing environmental interventions for worksite weight gain prevention and qualitative research on how the everyday life of low income families with school-age children influence the ability to make healthy nutrition and physical activity choices.
| Student Research Award | Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN |
1998 |
| Indirect Recovery Funds Award | Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN |
1993 |
| Predissertation Fieldwork Grant, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace & International Cooperation | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN |
1992 |
| Alumni Association Fellowship | School of Public Health, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN |
1992 |
| XIV Latin-American Pediatrics Congress Fellowship | Cuban Government | Havana, Cuba |
1984 |
| Honors Diploma | Medical School, National University of Buenos Aires | Argentina |
1981 |
2010 Mar
Bryant LL, Chin NP, Cottrell LA, Duckles JM, Fernandez ID, Garces DM, Keyserling TC, McMilin CR, Peters KE, Samuel-Hodge CD, Tu SP, Vu MB, Fitzpatrick AL. "Perceptions of cardiovascular health in underserved communities." Preventing chronic disease. 2010 Mar 0; 7(2):A30. Epub 2010 Feb 15. |
2010 Jan
Fernandez ID, Su H, Winters PC, Liang H. "Association of workplace chronic and acute stressors with employee weight status: data from worksites in turmoil." Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College
of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2010 Jan 0; 52 Suppl 1:S34-41. |
2010 Jan
Goetzel RZ, Gibson TB, Short ME, Chu BC, Waddell J, Bowen J, Lemon SC, Fernandez ID, Ozminkowski RJ, Wilson MG, DeJoy DM. "A multi-worksite analysis of the relationships among body mass index, medical utilization, and worker productivity." Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College
of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2010 Jan 0; 52 Suppl 1:S52-8. |
2008 Jun
Fernandez ID, Olson CM, De Ver Dye T. "Discordance in the assessment of prepregnancy weight status of adolescents: a comparison between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sex- and age-specific body mass index classification and the Institute of Medicine-based classification used for maternal weight gain guidelines." Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2008 Jun 0; 108(6):998-1002. |
2008
Dickerson T; Fernandez D; Topgyal, Samen A; Gelek, Nyima; Pelot G; Craig S; Dye T. "From Butter Tea to Pepsi®: A Rapid Appraisal of Food Preferences, Procurement Sources & Dietary Diversity in a Contemporary Tibetan Township". Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 2008; 47: 229-53. |
