Donald (Diego) Rose
associate professor
Department(s):
Community Health Sciences
Email:
diego@tulane.edu
Research Interests:
Socioeconomic determinants of nutrition; food and nutrition policy; international nutrition
Educational Background:
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, agricultural economics
MPH, University of California, Berkeley, public health nutrition
BS, University of California, Berkeley, nutritional sciences
Course(s) Taught:
Nutrition Assessment and Monitoring
Food and Nutrition Policy
Publications:
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Rose D, Hutchinson PL, Bodor JN, Swalm CM, Farley TA, Cohen DA, Rice JC. Neighborhood food environments and Body Mass Index: the importance of in-store contents. Am J Prev Med. 2009 Sep;37(3):214-9.
Rose D, Chotard S, Oliveira L, Mock N, Libombo M. A comparative evaluation of dietary indicators used in food consumption assessments of at-risk populations. Food Nutr Bull. 2008 Jun;29(2):113-22.
Rose D. Food Stamps, the Thrifty Food Plan, and meal preparation: the importance of the time dimension for US nutrition policy. J Nutr Edu Behav 2007 Jul-Aug;39(4):226-32.
Rose D, Bodor JN, Chilton M. Has the WIC incentive to formula feed led to an increase in overweight children? J Nutr 2006;136:1086-1090.
Rose D, Bodor JN. Household food insecurity and overweight status in young school children: results from the early childhood longitudinal study. Pediatrics 2006;117:464-473.
Rose D, Richards R. Food store access and household fruit and vegetable use among participants in the US Food Stamp program. Public Health Nutr 2004;7:1081-1088.
Rose D, Tschirley D. Predicting dietary intakes with simple food recall information: a case study from rural Mozambique. Euro J Clin Nutr 2003;57:1212-1221.
Rose D, Meershoek S, Ismael C, McEwan M. Evaluation of a rapid field tool for assessing household diet quality in Mozambique. Food Nutr Bull 2002;23:181-189.
Rose D, Charlton KE. Prevalence of household food poverty in South Africa: results from a large nationally representative survey. Public Health Nutr 2002;5:383-390.
Rose D, Charlton KE. Quantitative indicators from a food expenditure survey can be used to target the food insecure in South Africa. J Nutr 2002;132:3235-3243.
Personal Statement:
Donald "Diego" Rose has worked on food and nutrition programs and policies in both domestic and international contexts. Earlier in his career, Rose was a project director/nutritionist for the WIC Nutrition Program in a farmworker clinic in rural California. His doctoral dissertation, done in affiliation with Mexico’s National Institute of Nutrition, investigated household food consumption behavior in rural Mexico and its implications for improving government nutrition policy. After his doctorate, Rose worked for five years with USDA’s Economic Research Service, as a research team leader on the determinants and consequences of household food insecurity in America, the nutrition and health impacts of food assistance programs, and the evaluation of low-income nutrition education projects. He then spent five years working on food security and nutrition issues in Mozambique with Michigan State University's Food Security Project and in South Africa with the University of Cape Town's Medical School.
Rose's research at Tulane continues to focus on the social and economic side of nutrition problems. One project investigates the role of supermarket access in the consumption of fruits and vegetables among food stamp participants. A second project explores the links between domestic food insecurity, food assistance programs and overweight in young school children. In a third project, Dr. Rose is evaluating the trade-offs that low-income working women make between the time they spend in cooking at home and the costs of convenience foods, as well as the impacts that such decisions have on the nutrition and food security of their households.
Contact Information:
Community Health Sciences
1440 Canal Street
Suite 2301
New Orleans, LA 70112
Telephone: 504.988.5742
Fax: 504.988.3540
diego@tulane.edu
Level of Instruction:
graduate
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