Peggy Bentley
MA PhD
Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor
Department of Nutrition
Associate Dean for Global Health
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Associate Director for Education
Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Dr. Bentley’s research focuses on women and infant’s nutrition, infant and young child feeding, behavioral research on sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and community-based interventions for nutrition and health. She is an expert in both qualitative and quantitative research methods and the application of these for program development and evaluation.
She currently is working on an HIV behavioral intervention prevention trial in Chennai, India; on a community-based intervention to improve child growth and development in Andhra Pradesh, India; on an intervention to decrease maternal to child transmission of HIV during breastfeeding in Malawi.