Homero Martinez
Education
Overview
Biography
Homero Martínez is a senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he is building an international health research agenda with special focus on Latin America. Martínez has set up partnerships with different institutions, including a capacity training program around the topic of chronic diseases, focused on all of Central America; preventive, primary health care interventions focused on hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases; and nutrition security in the context of HIV-affected populations. He is also involved in health services research around the topics of scaling-up successful primary health care interventions.
Before joining RAND, Martínez was involved in public health nutrition research in his home country, Mexico, for several years, including in a large, nationwide health and nutrition survey focused on children under 2, as well as multisite intervention programs focused on strategies to reduce nutritional anemia, on home care of acute infectious diseases such as childhood diarrhea and acute respiratory infection, and on the integrated management of the sick child.
Martinez has served as associate editor for several scientific peer-reviewed journals and has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization. He is currently a board member of the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative, as well as of the Strategic Oversight Committee for the American Institute for Nutrition. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Martinez carried out his medical training in Mexico, where he also completed his residency in clinical pediatrics. Martinez received his Ph.D. in international nutrition from Cornell University.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Improving food security and nutrition to promote antiretroviral therapy adherence in Latin America
- Nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS in Latin America
- Contributing to individual and institutional capacity-building for nutrition-related chronic illnesses in Latin America
- Scaling up diet and nutrition counseling for people living with HIV/AIDS in Latin America
- E-health intervention to prevent progression of pre-hypertension in three Latin American countries
Selected Publications
Turnbull B, Martinez GO, Huerfano N, Ryan GW, Martinez H, "A contrast between mothers' assessments of child malnutrition and physical anthropometry in rural Mexico: a mixed methods community study," J Nutr Educ Behav, 41:201-206, 2009
Pineda-Lucatero A, Avila-Jimenez L, Ramos-Hernandez RI, Magos C, Martinez H, "Iodine deficiency and its association with intelligence quotient in schoolchildren from Colima, Mexico," Public Health Nutrition, 11:690-698, 2008
Martinez-Salgado H, Casanueva E, Rivera-Dommarco J, Viteri FE, Bourges-Rodríguez H, "Iron deficiency and anemia in Mexican children. Preventive and therapeutic interventions," Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex, 65:86-99, 2008
98 Duque-Lopez MX, Flores-Hernandez S, Flores-Huerta S, Mendez-Ramirez I, Muñoz S, Turnbull T, Martinez-Andrade G, Ramos RI, Gonzalez-Unzaga M, Mendoza ME, Martinez H, "Prevalence of anemia and deficiency of iron, folic acid and zinc in children under 2 years of age and beneficiaries of the Mexican Social Security Institute," BMC Public Health, 7:345, 2007
Sacco L, Caulfield L, Gittelsohn J, Martinez H, "Perceived insufficient milk among Mexican mothers: infant crying and other contributing factors to the translation of a perception into reality," Journal of Human Lactation, 22(3):277-286, 2006
Turnbull B, Martinez-Andrade G, Klünder M, Carranco T, Duque-Lopez X, Ramos-Hernandez RI, Gonzalez-Unzaga M, Flores-Hernandez S, Martinez-Salgado. H, "The Social Construction of Anemia in School Shelters for Indigenous Children in Mexico," Qualitative Health Research, 16(4):503-516, 2006
Menella JA, Turnbull B, Ziegler P, Martinez H, "Infant Feeding Practices and Early Flavor Experiences in Mexican Infants: An Intra-Cultural Study," Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 105(6):908-9156, 2005
Monarrez-Espino J, Greiner T, Martinez H, "A Rapid Qualitative Assessment to Design a Food Basket for Young Tarahumara Children in Mexico," Scandinavian Journal of Food and Nutrition, 48(1):4-12, 2004
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