
Gugulethu Moyo (Gugu) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Princeton University’s Global Health Program. She obtained a PhD in Nutritional Science at Texas Tech University. Prior to that, she completed an MSc in International Public Health Nutrition at London Metropolitan University and worked for several years within the international development sector. In her dissertation, she investigated the social and nutritional determinants of favorable fetal growth conditions in pregnant women living in South Africa. She now seeks to design and test the efficacy of interventions, that leverage traditional ecological knowledge, to improve the food and nutrition security status of pregnant and lactating women. She also aims to explore the chrononutrition of human milk, and its role in infant health.