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Awards

June 2019 Receipt of the Naparstek Mentorship Award. School of Medicine and Public Health. TUFTS University, Boston.

July 2007 Receipt of the CARE TDY Program Award to cover Tuition fees for Master Studies. Atlanta, United States.
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
American Society of Nutrition -ASN-.
Latin American Society of Nutrition -SLAN-

Degrees:

2010
Master     Social and Economic Sciences
Participation, Power and Social Change
2006
Undergraduate     Other

Publications resulting from Research
•Making the health system work by and for Indigenous women in Guatemala: a community led multisectoral collaboration. Nieves C, García-Meza R, Ukhova D, Xinico S, Palma S, Simpson S. British Medical Journal -BMJ- United Kingdom. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k4677
• Semantics of the Sustainable Development Goals 2015-2030 for Nutrition: The connotation gained (or lost) in translation from English to Spanish Rosario García-Meza, Emily Yates-Doerr and Noel W. Solomons.
• Late Introduction of complementary food: practices and perceptions among mothers of ≤2 years old children in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. Rosario García-Meza, Gabriela Montenegro- Bethancourt, Wendy González, Allison Tumilowicz, Annabelle Bonvecchio, Marieke Vossenar and Noel W. Solomons.
• Qualitative Studies to Inform Public Health Interventions: Case Study for Adherence to Diarrhea Treatment in the Guatemalan Western Highlands. García-Meza, R.; Roche M.; Solomons N.W. Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición. November 2015.
• Ritual fluids in relation to early child nutrition in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala M Vossenaar, R Garcia- Meza, NW Solomons, CM Doak, L Peters, & M Campos Ponce. (2012). Sight & Life Magazine, 26(2), 40-46.
•Household food distribution: A Gender based analysis of the corn flour preparations within Mayan Women from the Western Highlands in Guatemala. – CeSSIAM Guatemala 2012. García-Meza R, Orozco M. y Solomons W.N. Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición. November 2012
•Intergenerational Transmission of Factors that Determine Infant Feeding Practices: a Qualitative Approach to Examining Guatemalan Maternal Experiences– CeSSIAMGuatemala2011. García- Meza R, Padilla O., Doak C., Vossenaar M. and Solomons W.N. FASEB, 2012.

Congress of the Latin American Society of Nutrition Congress -SLAN-.
2025
icon-pin-location Punta Cana, República Dominicana
Regional Meeting of Social Sciences – CUNOC, FLACSO, CEUR, CeSSIAM.
2025
icon-pin-location Guatemala
International Congress of Nutrition
2025
icon-pin-location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Congress of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology –FASEB
2025
icon-pin-location Boston, USA.

Successful Literature Review - Principles and Practice – Practical Course. FINUT/INCAP
2025
icon-pin-location Guatemala
Latin American Society of Nutrition Congress -SLAN-
2025
icon-pin-location Guadalajara, México
Hermeneutic Phenomenology Course Applied to Complex Analysis – Robert Gordon University and Lancaster University.
2025
icon-pin-location Aberdeen, Scotland
International Congress of Nutrition –ICN-
2025
icon-pin-location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Protecting Human Rights in Research
2025
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