Marly Augusto Cardoso

Marly A. Cardoso graduated in Nutrition (1985) from the University of São Paulo (USP). At the same institution, she obtained her Masters degree (1992) and PhD (1995) in Food Science, as well as her Habilitation (Livre-Docência) in Public Health Nutrition (2006). She has been a Full Professor at the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, since 2016.She served as Head of the Department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, USP (20122014), and as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Public Health Nutrition (20062010). She was President of the Research Committee (20182021) and a representative of the School of Public Health Congregation at the University Council of USP (20182021).She has been a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Nutrition of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (CNPq Senior Visiting Fellowship), a Lemann Research Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (Boston), and Fulbright Chair in Food Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA.She has coordinated several research projects funded by FAPESP and CNPq, postdoctoral programs (PRODOC/CAPES and CNPq), and the School of Advanced Studies in Nutritional Epidemiology (USP/Harvard, funded by CAPES/Fogarty/NIH). She is Associate Editor of PLOS ONE and Revista de Saúde Pública and serves as reviewer for several national and international journals, including *Diabetes Care*, *Obesity Research*, *PLOS ONE*, *British Journal of Nutrition*, *Public Health Nutrition*, and *American Journal of Public Health*, among others in the fields of nutrition, epidemiology, and public health.She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Diabetes Epidemiology Group (IDEG) and has served on scientific advisory committees for FAPESP, CNPq, and CAPES. She has supervised 13 postdoctoral fellows, 13 PhD dissertations, 17 Masters theses, 30 undergraduate research projects, and more than 50 technical research training projects.She has experience in Nutrition, with emphasis on Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health, mainly focusing on nutritional status assessment, dietary intake, and nutritional disorders. She coordinated the National Study on Home Fortification of Complementary Feeding (ENFAC), a multicenter pragmatic trial supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, CNPq, and UNICEF (20122014). She currently coordinates the MINA-Brazil Study Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Acre: a birth cohort in Cruzeiro do Sul (Science Without Borders Program, CNPq 20152017; FAPESP Thematic Grant 20172022).She is the leader of the MINA-Brazil Research Group: Womens and Childrens Health and Nutrition, certified by USP and registered in the CNPq Research Groups Directory ([http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/7646657316313918](http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/7646657316313918)).ORCID: 0000-0003-0973-3908 (Source: Lattes Curriculum)