CURI-QUINTO Katherine

Instituto de Investigación Nutricional (IIN). Lima, Peru

• Katherine Curi-Quinto, PhD in Population Nutrition (National Institute of Public Health of Mexico), is Professor and Researcher at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences and the Instituto de Investigación Nutricional (IIN), where she leads the health and nutrition component of the Young Lives–Peru cohort.
• She is a public health nutrition researcher focused on sustainable diets, school food environments, and climate change. Her work examines how social inequalities shape diet quality, malnutrition, chronic diseases, and food insecurity, integrating affordability and environmental impact into dietary assessment.
• She has extensive experience in community-based and large-scale nutrition research, including multicenter studies and the development of interventions to promote healthier diets. She completed research stays at Harvard University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
• She is a member of PERUSAN, ALSANNA (Global Alliance for Healthy Food for Children and Adolescents – LAC), and the Latin American Leaders in Nutrition Network.

Recent publications :

1. Curi-Quinto K, Aquino-Ramírez A, Tarazona-Meza C, López G, Castellanos-Gutiérrez A, Unar-Munguía M, et al. Sociodemographic disparities in adherence to the Planetary Health Diet Index in Peru: evidence from the National Food and Nutrition Survey 2017–2018. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2026.
2. Curi-Quinto K, Unar-Munguía M, Rodríguez-Ramírez S, Rivera JA, Fanzo J, Willett W, et al. Sustainability of diets in Mexico: diet quality, environmental footprint, diet cost, and sociodemographic factors. Front Nutr. 2022;9:855793.
3. Curi-Quinto K, Unar-Munguía M, Rodríguez-Ramírez S, Röös E, Willett W, Rivera JA. Diet cost and quality using the Healthy Eating Index-2015 in adults from urban and rural areas of Mexico. Public Health Nutr. 2022;25(9):2554–2565.
4. Wood E, Moberg E, Curi-Quinto K, Van Rysselberge P, Röös E. From “good for people” to “good for people and planet”: placing health and environment on equal footing when developing food-based dietary guidelines. Food Policy. 2023;117:102444.
5. Chaquila JA, Tello-Ocaña F, [faltan autores]. Agricultural activity and household food insecurity in Peru: evidence based on the Young Lives cohort study. J Hunger Environ Nutr. 2025:1–20.