Leyre Notario, PhD

PhD, Miguel Hernández University, Public Health, Medical and Surgical Sciences, 2022

MPH, Miguel Hernández University, Public Health, 2015

BS, Miguel Hernández University, Pharmacy/Chemistry, 2014

Dr. Leyre Notario’s research primary interest is nutrition, particularly, dietary patterns, and its association with metabolic outcomes such as BMI and also metals exposure. During her doctoral training, Dr. Notario has conducted and participated in the validation of numerous food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) for the INfancia y Medio Ambiente (INMA) and Nutrition in Early Life and Asthma (NELA) birth cohorts. These FFQs have been used to assess the association between diet and several health outcomes in children and adolescents. During the last year of her program, Dr. Notario began working in the field of environmental epidemiology, evaluating the association between a healthy dietary pattern, the Mediterranean diet, and exposure to metals in children. Dr. Notario employed novel statistical techniques to evaluate the effect of the metal mixtures and the effect of the foods as a whole. Building on her previous work, in her postdoctoral position, she wants to explore the association between dietary patterns and environmental exposures in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study.