Hannia Campos, PhD

Dr. Hannia Campos is a Nutrition Scientist with over 25 years of experience in teaching and research. She was born and raised in Costa Rica, where she studied interior design, played volleyball with the Costa Rica National Team, and worked as an English teacher, before moving to the United States. She studied biology at Mount Holyoke College, obtained a Masters and PhD in Nutrition from Tufts University in Boston, and did post-doctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley. As faculty member in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, she founded and directed the Nutrition Biomarker Laboratory, a test center that specializes in the evaluation of dietary intake through the analyses of nutrients in different types of human samples from numerous populations including the Nurses and Health Professional Cohorts. Dr. Campos is the Principal Investigator of the Costa Rica Heart Study, a population-based study that investigates how genes interact with diet to affect heart disease. Her research, focused primarily on understanding the role of dietary fatty acids in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases has resulted in over 200 scientific publications. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Costa Rica. Currently, she lives in the Punta Leona Nature Reserve in the Central Pacific Coast of Costa Rica where she enjoys virtually connecting and exchanging experiences with people all over the world while being close to the ocean and wildlife.