Assistant Clinical Professor
Merrimack College
Eleanor Shonkoff is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Public Health at Merrimack College. Her work examines child obesity prevention and treatment techniques in under-resourced communities. Example topics include stress, parental feeding practices, and food insecurity; positive deviance (outliers) in culturally-appropriate nutrition intervention; and minimal interventions to achieve high-impact, sustainable, equitable improvements in health outcomes. Dr. Shonkoff received her master's degree in Social Psychology from Wake Forest University, doctorate in Preventive Medicine from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, and she conducted postdoctoral work at ChildObesity180 with the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.