Martha is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Nutrition Department at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received a B.A. in Nutrition and Wellbeing from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico City, Mexico), and an M.S. in Nutrition from the Mexican National Institute of Public Health (Cuernavaca, Mexico). She earned an Sc.D. in Nutrition from Harvard University in 2020. Her doctoral work focused on developing a traditional Mexican diet score and evaluating its association with risk of hypertension among U.S. adults of Mexican heritage in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).
Martha is pursuing a line of research in nutritional epidemiology in Hispanics/Latinos, with emphasis on evaluating the relationships between diet quality, traditional Latino diets, and lifestyle behaviors with cardio-metabolic outcomes using population-based studies.
