PhD Candidate
University of California, Davis, Department of Nutrition; Human Nutrition Research Center, Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute (HNRC-IMERI), Universitas Indonesia
Davrina Rianda graduated with a PhD in Nutritional Biology from UC Davis, with an emphasis in global nutrition, biostatistics/epidemiology and child development. She also has an MD and a Master of Nutrition from the University of Indonesia. Davrina's research focuses on how nutrition and health trajectories from early childhood and adolescence inform programs and policies to support growth, development, and long-term outcomes. She utilizes trajectory modeling to identify sensitive windows for intervention, and is interested in methods to promote wider adoption of advanced longitudinal data analysis. Davrina is also interested in developing objective methods to assess child development and behaviors in nutrition studies. Currently, she is an Assistant Project Scientist (Postdoctoral Scholar) at the Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.