Assistant Professor
University of California, San Francisco
Christine McDonald, ScD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics/Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of California San Francisco. She also serves as Director of the International Zinc Nutrition Consultative Group. Dr. McDonald is trained in nutritional epidemiology and her research focuses on the design and evaluation of interventions to prevent and treat maternal and child undernutrition in resource-limited settings. Specific topics of interest include: zinc nutrition, child growth and development, and environmental enteric dysfunction.
