Vitamins & Minerals

Ock K Chun

Ock K Chun
Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of Connecticut, USA

Biography

Rebecca D Merrillcurrently works with the Center for Human Nutrition of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) to conduct large, community-based maternal and child health and nutrition research trials in rural Bangladesh where she has lived and worked most of the last 10 years.  She has over 5 years of public health research experience focusing on the influence of nutrition on maternal and child health, survival, and growth in rural Bangladesh.

Research Interest

Impact of dietary antioxidants on improving oxidative stress and inflammatory process  Estimation of antioxidant intake of U.S. population from diet and supplements by utilizing national databases, Dietary behaviors and nutritional status in health and disease, Nutritional epidemiology.