Gugulethu Moyo

Bio

Gugulethu Moyo (Gugu) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate within the Global Health Program at Princeton University. She obtained her BSc in Nutrition from the University of Zimbabwe and her MSc in International Public Health Nutrition at London Metropolitan University. She came to Texas Tech University in 2018, when she joined Dr. Wilna Oldewage-Theron's Community Nutrition and Health Interventions (CNHI) Lab as a Fulbright Scholar. During her doctoral studies, she was a Graduate Instructor for the “Fieldwork in Food and Nutrition,” a service-learning course offered by the Department of Nutritional Science. Gugu also received numerous awards including a Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Texas Tech University and a Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award. Gugu's dissertation explored the social and nutritional determinants of favorable fetal growth conditions in pregnant women living in South Africa. She now seeks to carry out implementation research that leverages traditional ecological knowledge, to improve the food and nutrition security status of pregnant and lactating women in Kenya and Zimbabwe, and to explore the chrononutrition of human milk, and its role in infant health.

Awards

• Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Texas Tech University, 2021 – 2022
• Love of Learning Award from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2021-2022
• Jean Poteet Jones Memorial Scholarship from the College of Human Sciences, Texas Tech University, 2020 – 2021
• Fulbright Fellowship from the U.S Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs/Fulbright Commission, USA, 2018 – 2020
• Delta Kappa Gamma International Fellowship from Delta Kappa Gamma (ΔΚΓ) Professional Society for Women Educators, 2018 - 2020

Publications

• Moyo G, Jackson S, Childress A, Dawson J, Thompson L, Oldewage-Theron W. Chrononutrition and Breastmilk: A review of circadian variation of immune factors and other components found in breastmilk. Clinical Lactation, 2022, 13(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/CL.2021-0003
• Moyo G, Montenegro-Montenegro E, Stickley Z, Egal A, Oldewage-Theron W. A structural equation modeling approach to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status, diet quality and dyslipidemia risk of South African children and adolescents, 6-18 years. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, 18 (23): 1-10
• Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Moyo G, Napier C & Oldewage-Theron W. Food and beverages undermining elderly health: three food-based dietary guidelines to avoid or delay chronic diseases of lifestyle among the elderly in South Africa. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021; 34 (sup1): S27-S40
• Moyo G, Jackson S, Childress A, Dawson J, Thompson L, Oldewage-Theron W. Chrononutrition and Breastmilk: A review of circadian variation of hormones in breastmilk. Clinical Lactation, 2021; 12 (3): 114-124
• Moyo G, Jackson S, Childress A, Dawson J, Thompson L, Oldewage-Theron W. Chrononutrition and Breastmilk: A review of circadian variation in breastmilk nutrient composition. Clinical Lactation, 2021; 12 (2): 74-82
• Moyo G, Magaisa T, Pagiwa A, Kandawasvika R et al. Barriers and facilitators of exclusive breastfeeding: Findings from a Barrier Analysis Conducted in Mwenezi and Chiredzi Districts. World Nutrition, 2020; 11 (3): 12-21

 

 

Abstract and Conference Presentations

• Moyo G, Egal A, Oldewage-Theron W. Prevalence of the double burden of malnutrition in children living in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, Free State Department of Health Research Day, November 2021
  
  
• Moyo G, Ibiyemi T, Lee H, Peng L, Oldewage-Theron W. The association between coronavirus (COVID-19)-related employment challenges and students' dietary intake in the United States. Abstract Book, South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 34 (3): A1-A203. International Congress of Dietetics, September 2021
  
  
• Moyo G, Magaisa T, Pagiwa A, Kandawasvika R, et al. Barriers and facilitators of exclusive breastfeeding: Findings from a Barrier Analysis Conducted in Mwenezi and Chiredzi Districts, Zimbabwe. Current Developments in Nutrition, 4 (2): 249. American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Conference, June 2020
• Moyo G, Kandawasvika R, Magaisa T, Karembo F, Mutendadzamera C, et al. Measuring Perceived Barriers and Enablers of Mothers of Children 9 – 23 Months Feeding Them At least Three Cooked Staple-containing Meals Each Day in Mwenezi and Chiredzi Districts, Zimbabwe. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 120 (9): A69. Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE), October 2020

• Pagiwa A, Moyo G, Chagwena D, Samende B, Muganhiri T, Rowe L. Mandatory Food Fortification in a resource-limited country: Zimbabwe's experience. Micronutrient Forum, October 2020