Postgraduate research students

Carolina Paz Araya Bastias

c.araya-bastias.1@research.gla.ac.uk

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1196-8482

Research title: Assessing the environmental and health impact of dietary patterns in Latin American populations

Research summary

Research interests

My research focuses on the intricate connections between dietary patterns, their environmental impacts, and the resulting health outcomes, with a special emphasis on Latin American countries.

 

Publications

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Prior publications

Works published at other institutions

Article

Vilma Quitral, Adriana Escobar, Rocío Ávila, Marcos Flores, Ítalo Chiffelle, Carolina Araya-Bastías (2025) Incorporation of tomato peel (Solanum lycopersicum L.) into scones: effects on nutritional composition, fatty acids, and sensory traits Revista Facultad Nacional de Agronomía Medellín Crossref. (doi: 10.15446/rfnam.v78n2.112944)

(2021) Ultra-Processed Food Consumption Among Chilean Preschoolers Is Associated With Diets Promoting Non-communicable Diseases Frontiers in Nutrition Carolina Araya-Bastias. ISSN 2296-861X (doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.601526)

Vilma Quitral, Juanita Valdés, Valeska Umaña, Nicol Gallardo, María José Alcaino, Carolina Araya, Marcos Flores (2019) The Role of Non-Caloric Sweeteners in Sensory Characteristics of Pastry Products Foods Carolina Araya-Bastias. ISSN 2304-8158 (doi: 10.3390/foods8080329)

Supervisors

Conferences

October 2019

Healthy dietary promotion. Conference offered in Transdisciplinary Workshop on Health Promotion, Universidad Santo Tomás (Santiago de Chile)

December 2018

Contribution of processed foods and ultra-processed foods to the intake of energy and critical nutrients in a group of Chilean preschoolers. Poster exposed in V Chilean Congress of Public Health and VII Chilean Congress in Epidemiology, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Summary available in:https://www.medwave.cl/link.cgi/Medwave/ResumenesCongreso/sp2018/AlimNutricSal/SP05.act

November 2018

Contribution of processed foods and ultra-processed foods to the intake of energy and critical nutrients in a group of Chilean preschoolers. Conference offered in LVI Latin American Society Meeting on Paediatric Research 2018, Atton Hotel, Concepción, Chile.

Teaching

I have worked in teaching before starting my PhD in Chile between 2015 and 2021. I have been in charge of courses related to public health such as Primary Health Assistance and Public Health; Public health and epidemiology; Social determinants of health; Health promotion; Nutritional and alimentary education; and Alimentary behaviour’s factors. 

Additional information

Background

My BSc is in Nutrition and Dietetics and I have an MSc in Nutrition and Food, focusing on Health Promotion and Prevention of Nutrition-Related Chronic Diseases from Universidad de Chile, my academic foundation is deeply rooted in nutrition science.