hugo.melgar-quinonez [at] mcgill.ca (Hugo Melgar-Qui帽onez)
Dr Hugo Melgar-Qui帽onez is the Margaret A. Gilliam Faculty Scholar in Food Security. He holds an appointment in the School of Human Nutrition at 看片视频 University in Montreal. A Guatemalan and a USA citizen, Dr Melgar-Quinonez moved to 看片视频 University in September of 2012, after 9 years of work as a professor in the Department of Nutrition at the Ohio State University. Previous to his appointment in Ohio, he worked as a researcher in public health nutrition at the University of California in Davis and at the Mexican Institute of Public Health. Dr. Melgar-Qui帽onez holds a degree in Medicine from both the Friedrich Schiller University in Germany and the National University of San Carlos in Guatemala. He also received his doctoral degree in sciences from the Friedrich Schiller University in Germany. In addition to his academic appointments, Dr Melgar-Quinonez has worked as an advisor on food security in several countries in Latin America, and maintains strong collaborative relationships with the United Nations Food and agriculture Organization (FAO), among other international institutions and development agencies. His research program on the assessment of household food security includes over 20 countries around the globe.
