Constance Gewa
Assistant Professor
Unit: Department of Global and Community Health
Mail Stop: 5B7
Office Location: Robinson B 428
Phone: 703-993-2173
Email: cgewa@gmu.edu
Dr. Gewa in an assistant professor in the Department of Global and Community Health. She teaches courses in public health and nutrition. Her research focuses on populations in less developed countries looking at factors influencing nutrition status and the role of nutrition in health outcomes among different population groups. Dr. Gewa worked in Kenya looking at dietary assessment methodology, dietary behavior and the effect of dietary intake on growth and cognitive function among primary school children. She has looked at factors influencing consumption of iodised salt among households in rural Kenya. Dr. Gewa earned an M.S. in Applied Human Nutrition from the University of Nairobi, an M.P.H. and a Ph.D. in Public Health the University of California at Los Angeles.
Recent Publications:
Gewa C, Murphy SP, Neumann CG (2007). Out-of-Home Food Intake Is Often Omitted from Mothers' Recalls of School Children's Intake in Rural Kenya. The Journal of Nutrition. 137(9), 2154-2159.
Kunchok Gyaltsen, Constance Gewa, Heather Greenlee, Jessica Ravetz, Meredith Aikman, and Anne R. Pebley, "Socioeconomic Status and Maternal and Child Health in Rural Tibetan Villages" (March 8, 2007). California Center for Population Research. On-Line Working Paper Series. Paper CCPR-Special-07. http://repositories.cdlib.org/ccpr/olwp/CCPR-Special-07
Murphy SP, Gewa C, Grillenberger M, Neumann CG, Bwibo, NO (2007). Designing snacks to address micronutrient deficiencies in rural Kenyan schoolchildren. The Journal of Nutrition. 137(4), 1093-1096.
Neumann CG, Murphy SP, Gewa C, Grillenberger M, Bwibo, NO (2007). Meat supplementation improves growth, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes in Kenyan children. The Journal of Nutrition. 137(4), 1119-1123.