Sanjoy Saha, Ph.D.

Bio

Dr. Sanjoy Saha's research interests focus on health behavior promotion, dietary assessment, nutrition education, and food and nutrition security. As part of his doctoral dissertation at Texas Tech University (TTU), Dr. Saha investigated the effectiveness of a nutrition education intervention with or without a school garden to promote nutrition knowledge, fruit and vegetable (F&V) preference, F&V eating self-efficacy, cooking, and gardening self-efficacy among elementary school children in Lubbock, Texas.  Dr. Saha worked as a research assistant at TTU under the supervision of Dr. Wilna Oldewage-Theron, and actively involved in implementing different community nutrition projects such as a needs assessment of nutrition education among seniors, assessing prevalence and determinants of food insecurity among university students in Lubbock, Texas. Dr. Saha published several manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and attended several conferences such as the American Society of Nutrition, Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Currently, Dr. Saha has been working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana.

Selected Journal Publications

Saha, S., Abu, A. Z. B., Oldewage-Theron, W. H., & Egal, A. (2019). Food insecurity among the elderly and available food options at local shops at Sharpeville, South Africa. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 19(2):14500-14516.

Saha, S. Abu, A. Z. B., Jamshidi-Naeimi, Y., Mukherjee, U., Miller, M., Peng, L., & Oldewage-Theron. W. H. (2019). Is iodine deficiency still a problem in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review. Proceeding of the Nutrition Society. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665118002859).

Oldewage-Theron, W. H, Abu, B. A. Z., Nguyen, B., & Saha, S. (2018). Food insecurity and food access among seniors in Lubbock, Texas. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. (https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2018.1512920).

Oldewage-Theron, W. H., Abu, A. Z. B., Saha, S., & Egal, A. (2016). Magnitude, socio-economic and dietary intake predictors of micronutrient deficiencies among school-aged children in rural South Africa, a community-based cross-sectional study. International Journal of Food and Nutrition Science, 5(3), P154-165.

Selected Poster Presentations

Saha, S.,& Oldewage-Theron, W. H. A behavior-specific nutrition education intervention improves fruit and vegetable preference among elementary school children. Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. 27-31 July 2019, Orlando, U.S.

Saha, S.,& Oldewage-Theron, W. H. A theory informed nutrition education intervention improves knowledge, preference, and self-efficacy related fruit and vegetable consumption among elementary school children. American Society for Nutrition. 07-11 June 2019, Baltimore, U.S.