Elena Carrillo Álvarez

Elena Carrillo is a Dietitian-Nutritionist. She is PhD in Education and has performed research around a variety of topics mainly related to how socio-educational features can leverage health and educational inequalities. More specifically, she develops her research around healthy eating and youth obesity prevention using an ecological approach, and around educational governance networks, that connect social, health and educational organizations and empower communities to succeed in front of today’s comprehensive challenges. She has been domain coordinator for the development of reference budgets for the food basket in a EU funded project involving institutions from the 28 member state countries. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health.

She is member of the PSITIC research group on Pedagogy Society and Innovation with ICT support. She is an associate professor at the FCS Blanquerna, teaching Sports Nutrition, Sociology of food and nutrition, and Nutrition in Social Exclusion. She has obtained several grants and recognition to her work, including grants from the Spanish Government, awards to several presentations made in international conferences and also to the development of teaching material to promote healthy eating habits in teenagers. She has been designated as a Future Leader into the Future Leader/Volunteer (FLV) Program, which recognizes and mentors emergent global scholars dedicated to continuing research and development of their profession, passionate about serving local and global communities, and chosen for their innovative and interdisciplinary approach, active participation and contribution to active and healthy living strategies.

She is also number member of the Academia Española de Nutrición y Dietética.