Guest: Sera Young

Dr. Sera Young in a medical anthropologist who works on maternal and child nutrition in low-resource settings. She has ongoing research in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Mozambique. She has had faculty and fellowship positions at University of California Berkeley, UC Davis, and UCSF; in 2011 she returned to Cornell as faculty member of the Division of Nutritional Sciences.  She is the author of “Craving Earth: Understanding Pica--the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk”