M. Fernanda Mediano

Fernanda is a psychologist with a Master’s Degree in Health Psychology from the Catholic University of Chile. Before joining the Global Food Research Program at UNC as Research Assistant, she worked in the Ministry of Health of Chile contributing to the drafting and implementation of a new food law for regulating the labeling, marketing and sale of food with high levels of energy, sugar, sodium and saturated fat. She is also part of the research group INFORMAS-Chile an International Network for Food and Obesity research, at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology of the University of Chile. She completed a PhD in Media and Communication from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2021 and continues to work with the GFRP program conducting research on the food environment, particularly food marketing and mass communication affecting the preferences and eating behavior of the population.

My favorite food-related smell is… fresh peaches.