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Jeanne Lawless Research Associate 303 Kennedy Hall 607.255.2798 jwl10@cornell.edu |
Dr. Jeanne Lawless’ research interests focus on the social and cultural aspects of food and nutrition. She has been involved in research examining the relationship between dietary behaviors and health outcomes. Currently she is working on a USDA-funded project that is aimed at improving safe home food preparation messages to reduce foodbourne illnesses. Prior to this, her most recent research examined dietary acculturation of Chinese in New Zealand as it relates to type 2 diabetes. She received her BS (Biological Sciences) and PhD (Nutritional Sciences) from Cornell University, after which she conducted an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and Engineering in the UK examining the relationship between diet, ethnicity and health in the multicultural community of East Oxford.
Selected Publications
Jin Y, Coad J and Lawless J (2007). Dietary acculturation among Chinese in New Zealand in relation to the risks for type 2 diabetes. Poster presentation at the joint New Zealand & Australian Nutrition Societies Conference, 5-7 December, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
Lawless J, Wood M and Hamilton J (2005). A method for measuring dietary similarities and its application to the process of dietary acculturation. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand 5:108-114.
Lawless J and Wood M (2003). Dietary change in school children as it relates to acculturation occurring in East Oxford, England. Poster presented at the 9th European Nutrition Conference, Rome FAO, Italy, October 1-4. Ann. Nutr. Metab. 47:433-34.
Lawless J (2002). Freshmen Fifteen: Myth or Reality at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. Poster presented at Nutrition Week: A Scientific and Clinical Forum, San Diego, California. Am.J.Clin.Nutr. 75(2 suppl):356S-357S.
Lawless JW, Latham MC, Stephenson LS, Kinoti SN and Pertet AM (1994). Iron supplementation improves appetite and growth in anemic Kenyan primary school children. J. Nutr. 124: 645-654.
Lawless JW (1994). A nutritional anthropologic perspective on appetite and growth in Kenyan Digo Primary School children. Xth European Anthropological Association Meetings, Copenhagen, Denmark.
