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Diane
L. Markowitz, Associate Professor, (D.M.D., Tufts
University; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is a physical
anthropologist at the Department of Geography and Anthropology,
Rowan University and a Research Associate of the Rutgers-Camden
Center for Children and Childhood Studies.
Dr. Markowitz' research interests also include the health
and growth of the children of Hispanic migrant laborers
in the South Jersey area. The children's diet and living
conditions are being examined with a view to determining
their risk for growth delay, obesity, Type II diabetes and
the possible effects of agricultural pesticide exposure.
Dr. Markowitz
is also Co-PI (with Sheila Cosminsky) on a pilot study
for a larger collaborative project on Health
of Migrant Children in Southern New Jersey.
New Jersey Obesity
Group, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
P.I.s: Diane Markowitz (Rowan) and Sheila Cosminsky (Rutgers-Camden)
Title: Validation of methods for assessing food
security, categorizations and use of dietary items among
Hispanic migrant families: the Radimer/Cornell Food Security
questionnaire, the pile sort method and the Southwest Food
frequency questionnaire.
Aims: To validate methods of assessing food security
and categorization and use of dietary items. The methods
listed in the title have never been used before with a migrant
Mexican sample. If they are validated, we will correlate
the results with overweight in our sample of migrant Mexican
children age 2-18
Markowitz DL and Cosminsky S, 2005. Overweight and stunting
in migrant Hispanic children in the USA. Economics and
Human Biology (spec. issue, D. Bishai, J. Cawley and C.
Panter-Brick, eds.). 3 (2): 215- 240.
Markowitz
DL and Cosminsky S, 2003. Stunting and Obesity in the Land
of Plenty: Children of Hispanic Migrant Laborers in New
Jersey. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Suppl.
36: 146.
Markowitz,
DL, 2000. The smallest migrants: Hispanic migrant child
growth in rural southern New Jersey. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 12(2):
278.
Book Chapters
Markowitz,
Diane L., 1998. Craniofacial disorders: orthodontic aspects.
In: S. Ulijaszek, F.E. Johnston and M. Preece (eds.). Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development. Cambridge,
England: Cambridge University Press
Ghafari
J. and Markowitz DL, 1996. Skeletal and dental development
of children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. In: Zev Davidovich
(ed.). Biological Mechanisms of Tooth Movement and Craniofacial
Adaptation. Boston: Harvard Society for the Advancement
of Orthodontics, pp. 495-500.
Ghafari
J., Markowitz DL, Jacobsson-Hunt U et al., 1994. Somatic
growth and dentitional changes during orthodontic treatment
of prepubertal children. In: Otto Eiben (ed.). Humanbiologia
Budapestinensis: Proceedings of the 7th International Congress
of Auxology, Vol 25, pp. 69-75.
Johnston,
F.E. and Markowitz, D.L., 1993. Do poverty and malnutrition
affect children’s growth and development: are the
data there? In Robert Karp (ed.). Malnourished Children
in the United States: Caught in the Cycle of Poverty. New
York: Springer Publishing Co., pp. 3- 12.
Markowitz DL and Cosminsky S. Family characteristics of
overweight Latino migrant children in southern New Jersey.
Annual National Meeting, Human Biology Association, Philadelphia,
PA. March 28, 2007.
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