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717 Delaware Street SE, Rm 424
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Dr. de Brito is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. de Brito is a social-behavioral epidemiologist and a trained dietitian. Her research focuses on investigating the interplay of structural and social determinants of health and health-related behaviors that contribute to obesity and cardiometabolic health disparities among children and families of racialized and other marginalized groups.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, T32 Minnesota Obesity Prevention Training (MnOPT) Program, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
PHD, Social/Behavioral Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
MPH, Public Health Nutriton, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
MBA, Healthcare Management, Bellevue University
BS/RD, Nutrition and Dietetics, Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Physical activity and sedentary behaviors, eating behaviors, mental health, pediatric obesity, cardiometabolic health, health disparities, mHealth, device-based measures, life course epidemiology, mixed-methods.