Gloria Guevara Alvarez, PhD

Dr. Gloria Guevara Alvarez is a nutritional scientist with extensive training in economics for food and nutrition policy. Her expertise includes developing nutrition-related interventions that improve dietary intake among vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Her research is focused on understanding nutrition and disease, specifically how adequate dietary intake contributes to lower disease burden (e.g., HIV, cancer). 

The overarching goal of her work is to maximize health resources in low resource settings. Dr. Guevara Alvarez is highly motivated to lead global initiatives and research that improve the health outcomes, especially health equity in cancer, among vulnerable populations.

As part of her NCI-funded work while at New York University’s School of Global Public Health she investigated the intersection between nutrition and cancer prevention using Dissemination & Implementation Science methods. For example, she used food insecurity scales to further identify critical links between cancer and nutrition, particularly among people living with HIV. 

Dr. Guevara Alvarez also studies implementation strategies for scaling primary and secondary cancer prevention interventions in LMICs, and how to integrate non-communicable disease (e.g., cervical cancer) screening and treatment into HIV care settings. The cancer prevention intervention research she is undertaking is critical to human health and to addressing the quickly unfolding cancer crisis in LMICs.