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Jinan Banna  , PhD, RD, CDN
Associate Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal SciencesCollege of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Work Email: jcbanna@hawaii.eduINTERNET

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Research Interests

Nutrition education, program evaluation, community nutrition, child and adolescent nutrition.

Recent Publications

  • Banna JC, Richards R, Jones B, Anderson A, Reicks M, Cluskey M, Gunther C, Hongu N, Lora K, Misner S, Monroe-Lord L, Topham G, Wong SS, Lim E. Describing independent eating occasions among low-income adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020;17(3):E981.
  • Holmes H, Palacios C, Wu Y, Banna JC. Effect of a short message service intervention on excessive gestational weight gain in a low-income population: a randomized controlled trial. Nutrients. 2020;12(5):1428.
  • Fialkowski MK, Calabrese A, Tillinghast B, Titchenal A, Meinke W, Banna JC, Draper J. Open educational resource textbook impact on students in an introductory nutrition course. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2020;52(4):359-368.

Recent Grants

  • Can mHealth, an app that measures skin carotenoid, work as an optimal biomarker for health and key motivator for F&V intake? Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. 2018-2019. Banna J, Mentor (Undergraduate PIs:Chowdhury, Nahian & Langfelder, Gemady)
  • A secondary data analysis of the quality of a unique diet quality index score with infants in Puerto Rico and Hawaii to assess diet quality. Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. 2018-2019. Banna J, Mentor (Undergraduate PI: Ramirez, Jessica)
  • Child Health Assessment in the Pacific Summer (CHAPS) Fellowship. United States Department of Agriculture. 2016-2019. Banna J, Mentor (PI: Novotny, Rachel and Fialkowski, Marie)
  • Preventing excessive gestational weight gain via short mobile messages in WIC. 2017-2018. National Insitutes of Health. Banna J, PI

Current Graduate Students (Chair)

  • Christine Crosby (PhD Nutrition)
  • Asuka Suzuki (PhD Nutrition). Characterization of parental practices supporting positive eating behaviors of adolescents in Hawai'i.

Pathway to degree completion *FOR STUDENTS ADMITTED FALL 2020 OR LATER *

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Degree program faculty

Cheryl Lynn Albright, PhD, MPH
Mapuana Antonio, DrPH
Jinan Banna, PhD, RD, CDN
Marla J. Berry, PhD
Carol J. Boushey, PhD, MPH, RDN
Jean Butel, PhD
Monica Esquivel, PhD RDN CSSD
Adrian Franke, PhD
Yanghua “Sunny” He, PhD
Kacie K.H.Y. Ho, PhD
Rajesh Jha, PhD
Rachel Johnson, PhD, MPH, RD
Soojin Jun, PhD
Yong Soo Kim, PhD, MS
Iris Fumiko Kimura, PhD, AT.Ret, PT
Janet Latner, PhD
Loic Le Marchand, MD, PhD
Rachael Leon Guerrero, PhD, RDN, LD
Qing X. Li, PhD
Yong Li, PhD
Unhee Lim, PhD, MS
Gertraud Maskarinec, MD PhD
Birendra Mishra, PhD, MS, DVM
Pratibha Nerurkar, PhD
Rachel Novotny, PhD RDN
Jenee Odani, DVM
May Okihiro, MD
Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla, PhD RDN LD IBC
Andre P. Seale, PhD
John A Shepherd, PhD
Mark Thorne, PhD
Lynne Wilkens, DrPH, MS
Jinzeng Yang, PhD
Halina M Zaleski, PhD

Contact

Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
1955 East-West Road,
Ag Sci 216
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822
Phone: (808) 956-7095
Fax: (808) 956-4024
Email: nutrphd@hawaii.edu

UH Graduate Division

Address: 2540 Maile Way Spalding 354 Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956-8544 Email: gradss@hawaii.edu Website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/graduate/

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