Alexandra MacMillan Uribe
Alexandra (Lexi) L. MacMillan Uribe, PhD, RDN, is an Assistant Professor of Healthy Living for Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture. She studied psychology at Penn State University before pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, investigating interventions targeting the mother-infant dyad within a primary-care group approach. She continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow in the NIH-sponsored Maternal and Child Nutrition Training Grant at Cornell University. Her primary research focus is on the development and evaluation of community-informed programs and policies that address food and nutrition security and diet quality to reduce chronic disease risk and incidence in underserved communities. More specifically, her research aims to evaluate programs and strategies for improving diet- and chronic disease-related outcomes; use community-informed and mixed-methods approaches to inform health promotion programs; understand the role of culture in diet and incorporating culture into program development; develop valid and reliable evaluation tools for health promotion programs; and leverage digital technology to deliver health education and information.