Ana Lydia Sawaya


	Ana Lydia Sawaya is a professor of the Department of Physiology at São Paulo Federal University (UNIFESP), coordinator of IEA’s research group on Nutrition and Poverty, and scientific director of the university extension project of the Center for Nutritional Recovery and Education (CREN), which she started and coordinated for 12 years. She graduated in Biological Sciences and has a master’s degree in Physiology from USP; she also earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in Nutrition from the University of Cambridge (England). She completed two post-doctoral internships, one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and another at Tufts University (both in the United States), and worked as a visiting scholar in both institutions. She currently researches the impacts of protein-energy deficiency in children, adolescents and adults, and how these impacts are associated with obesity and the risk of chronic diseases. She has recently begun to study the effects of nutritional recovery on malnourished children.

Ana Lydia Sawaya is a professor of the Department of Physiology at São Paulo Federal University (UNIFESP), coordinator of IEA’s research group on Nutrition and Poverty, and scientific director of the university extension project of the Center for Nutritional Recovery and Education (CREN), which she started and coordinated for 12 years. She graduated in Biological Sciences and has a master’s degree in Physiology from USP; she also earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in Nutrition from the University of Cambridge (England). She completed two post-doctoral internships, one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and another at Tufts University (both in the United States), and worked as a visiting scholar in both institutions. She currently researches the impacts of protein-energy deficiency in children, adolescents and adults, and how these impacts are associated with obesity and the risk of chronic diseases. She has recently begun to study the effects of nutritional recovery on malnourished children.