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.
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Education
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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
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Research
Physical activity and sedentary behaviors, eating behaviors, mental health, pediatric obesity, cardiometabolic health, health disparities, mHealth, device-based measures, life course epidemiology, mixed-methods.
