​Specialization: ​Food Security

An assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Jordan, and a member of the American Society of Nutrition, Supreme National Committee for Nutrition at Ministry of Health, Jordanian Dietetic Association, and Jordanian Food and Nutrition Association; editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; and reviewer for several indexed journals. I obtained my PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and have >30 publications on eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, nutrition status, and food insecurity.​

Research Interests: diet quality; food rescue nutrition; food security; food systems; food waste and loss; public health nutrition; health disparities; health status of the low-income; eating attitudes and behaviors of adolescents college students; eating disorders; social media, body image dissatisfaction, and eating behaviors.​