Deputy Director
National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Dr. Teresa Shamah-Levy is nutritionist, was graduated in master’s in health sciences with Concentration Area in Epidemiology and she has a Public Health PhD. She was Head of the Department of Nutrition Monitoring and currently is Director of the Center of Evaluation and Surveys of the National Public Health Institute in Mexico. She is member of the National Researchers System.
She has been the coordinator of several National Nutrition Surveys in Mexico (1999, 2006, and 2012, 2016, 2018-19, from 2020 ENSANUT Continuous, 2021,2022 and 2023); Plus, other as the Urban Food Consumption Surveys, (1995, 2002, 2013). She has advised national nutrition surveys in Venezuela and Ecuador and consultant to establish the Nutrition Surveillance System in Nicaragua.
She has been FAO National Consultant in different projects and for the National Council of Assessment of Poverty in Mexico (CONEVAL), in themes associated with food and nutrition education, of the National Crusade Hunger Program, and dietary diversity and food security.
Dr. Shamah has published 210 articles in indexed journals, 40 book chapters, 12 books and several diffusion manuals. She has consolidated in 2012 a Food Security group in Mexico, from the perspective of the access and consumption, where national and international researchers participate and as of 2021, the evaluation of water insecurity has been initiated.