Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Associate Dean for Global Health; Associate Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease
• Africa 10%-24% • Latin America Less than 10% • South Asia 25%-49%
Languages:
• Hindi (professional proficiency) • Spanish (elementary proficiency)
Specialization:
Maternal and child nutrition, growth, and development; HIV prevention, microbicides; HIV and breastfeeding; women''s health, reproductive health, HIV, breastfeeding, pediatric obesity, nutrition transition; global health; rural health.
Relevant Experience:
• Development of a comprehensive fundraising and strategic planning program for global health in the School of Public Health; Research experience in Kenya, Nigeria, and Malawi.
Distinctions:
• -ongoing NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Grant (2012-2017); Save the Children UK, multi-country study of impact of social transfers on children in 3 African countries (2009-2014); Grant for Monitoring and Evaluation for Feed the Future Feedback Program (2012-2017); CDC Grant for breast-feeding, antiretrovirals, and nutrition in HIV (2004-2014); Ambassador, Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
20
Relevant Courses Taught:
• NUTR 745, International Nutrition; NUTR 750, International Nutrition: Special Topics; PUBH 510, Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health.
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Barrett, Katherine J., Amanda L. Thompson, and Margaret E. Bentley. "The Influence of Maternal Psychosocial Characteristics on Infant Feeding Styles." Appetite 103, (2016): 396-402.
• 2016 Hodges, EA, HM Wasser, BK Colgan, and ME Bentley. "Development of Feeding Cues during Infancy and Toddlerhood." The American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing 41, no. 4 (2016): 244-251.
• 2016 Flax, Valerie L., Margaret E. Bentley, et al. "Group Cell Phones are Feasible and Acceptable for Promoting Optimal Breastfeeding Practices in a Women's Microcredit Program in Nigeria: Group Cell Phones to Promote Breastfeeding." Maternal & Child Nutrition March (2016).
• 2014 Margaret E. Bentley; et al., “NURTURE: Development and pilot testing of a novel parenting intervention for mothers with histories of an eating disorder.” International Journal of Eating Disorders. 2014;47(1):1-12.
• 2014 Margaret E. Bentley; et al., “Formative research methods for designing culturally appropriate, integrated child nutrition and development interventions: An overview.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2014;1308(1):54-67.
• 2013 Margaret E. Bentley; et al., “Behavioral and psychophysiological responsiveness during child feeding in mothers with histories of eating disorders: A pilot study.” Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 2013;35(4):578-591.
• 2012 Bentley ME, et al., “Examination of facilitators and barriers to home-based supplemental feeding with ready-to-use food for underweight children in western Uganda.” Matern Child Nutr. Jan;8(1):115-129.
• 2012 Margaret Bentley et al., “A lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) mitigates weight loss among HIV infected women in a factorial, randomized trail to prevent mother-to-child transmission during exclusive breastfeeding.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
• 2007 Corneli AL, Piwoz EG, Bentley ME, Moses A, Nkhoma JR, Tohill BC, Adair L, Mtimuni B, Ahmed Y, Duerr A, Kazembe P, van der Horst C; UNC Project BAN Study Team (2007)
Involving communities in the design of clinical trial protocols: the BAN Study in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Contemporary Clinical Trials: vol.28(1), p.59-67.
• 2007 NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group (Bentley ME, responsible for ethnographic research direction of 5 country study) (2007). “Methodological overview of a five-country community-level HIV/sexually transmitted disease prevention trial.” AIDS 21 (Suppl. 2): S3-S18.
• 2007 NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group (Bentley, ME, lead investigator for ethnographic team) (2007). “Design and integration of ethnography within an international behavior change HIV/sexually transmitted disease prevention trial.” AIDS 21 (suppl. 2): S37-S48.
• 2007 NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group (Bentley, ME, investigator for India site) (2007). “The community popular opinion leader HIV prevention programme: conceptual basis and intervention procedures.” AIDS 21 (Suppl. 2): S59-S68
• 2007 NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group (Bentley, ME, investigator for India site) (2007). “Selection of populations represented in the NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial.” AIDS 21 (Suppl. 2): S19-S28.
• 2007 Sivaram S, Johnson S, Bentley ME, Srikrishnan AK, Latkin CA, Go VF, Solomon S, Celentano DD (2007)
Exploring "Wine Shops" as a Venue for HIV Prevention Interventions in Urban India.
Journal of Urban Health: vol.84(4), p.563-76.
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