Skye Shodahl

Skye Shodahl is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Community Health Sciences Department within the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Broadly, her research interests include the social determinants of maternal and child nutrition among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. More specifically, she is interested in the impact of structural factors (i.e., physical, economic, political, and sociocultural) on aspects of infant feeding (i.e., supplementation rates, breast/chestfeeding exclusivity rates) and maternal and child health disparities in AANHPI communities. She hopes her research will be a catalyst for the development of relevant interventions and transformative policies critical to making the health of AANHPI women, children, and families a shared value.