Post Doctoral Fellow
NYU School of Global Public Health
Dr. Guevara’s research is focused on understanding nutrition and disease, specifically how adequate dietary intake contributes to lower disease burden. She is a nutritional scientists with extensive training in economics and food policy. Her expertise includes developing nutrition-related interventions that improve dietary intake among vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
As part of her work at New York University’s School of Global Public Health, she is investigating the intersection between nutrition and cancer prevention using Dissemination & Implementation Science methods. For example, she is using food insecurity scales to further identify critical links between cancer and nutrition, particularly among people living with HIV. She is also studying implementation strategies for scaling primary and secondary cancer prevention interventions in LMICs. The cancer prevention intervention research she is undertaking is critical to human health and to addressing the quickly unfolding cancer crisis in LMICs. Her work is supported by the National Cancer Institute.