Sonja Y. Hess, PhD

Research Nutritionist
UC Davis

Sonja Hess is Research Nutritionist in the Institute for Global Nutrition at the University of California, Davis, USA. She completed her Masters degree in Food Science Engineering and a PhD in Human Nutrition from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. She has worked in human nutrition research focusing on interactions among trace elements and control of micronutrient deficiencies in low-income countries, including Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Lao PDR and Thailand. Her research program is generally carried out in the context of community-based intervention trials, using an efficacy or effectiveness study design.

Presentation(s):

• Introduction: The neglected B Vitamins

  ON-DEMAND

• Panel discussion: The neglected B Vitamins

  ON-DEMAND

• Prospective cohort study to develop a case definition of thiamine responsive disorder (preliminary results)

  ON-DEMAND

• The challenges of estimating the micronutrient prevalences and related global burden of disease with IHME’s GBD estimates as a case study.

  Monday, November 9, 2020
  11:15 AM – 12:45 PM EST

• Effects of daily preventive zinc, daily multiple micronutrient powder or therapeutic zinc supplementation for diarrhea on health and nutritional status of Laotian children

  Thursday, November 12, 2020
  1:30 PM – 3:00 PM EST