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    DR. ALEJANDRA CANTORAL

    Education:

    • 2019 – Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
    • 2013 – PhD in Public Health Sciences with a Concentration in Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health (INSP).
    • 2007 – Master of Health Sciences with a Concentration in Nutrition, INSP.
    • 1999 – Bachelor’s Degree in Dietetics and Nutrition.

    Academic appointments:

    • National System of Researchers, Level III.
    • Consultant for UNICEF in Child Environmental Health.
    • Full-Time Faculty Member, IBERO Mexico City.

    Experience:

    • University instructor at various institutions since 2007.
    • Over 20 years of clinical experience.
    • More than 15 years of research experience

    Research interests:

    • Nutritional Epidemiology.
    • Heavy Metal Exposure and Health.
    • Obesity, Hepatic Steatosis, Diabetes.
    • Maternal and Child Nutrition and Life Course.
    • Sustainable Diets and Dietary Guidelines.

    Highlighted Projects:

    • Environmental exposures and their interaction with nutrients on maternal and child health.
    • Dietary patterns and nutrition associated with obesity and cardiometabolic diseases.
    • Observational studies and health interventions.
    • Clinical trials.

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    • Su D, Goodrich JM, Lee JT, Dolinoy DC, Peterson KE, Chervin RD, Burgess HJ, Téllez-Rojo MM, Cantoral A, Torres-Olascoaga L, Tolentino M, Song PXK, O’Brien LM, Jansen EC. Circadian gene expression in adolescents: Associations with concurrent circadian disruption and subsequent changes in cardiometabolic risk measures. Sleep Med. 2026 May;141:108819. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2026.108819. Epub 2026 Feb 5. PMID: 41666816.
    • Ancira-Moreno M, Pérez-Escamilla R, Ruano AL, Cantoral A, Cobo Armijo F, Teruel Belismelis G, Hernández-Cordero S. The impact of the United States’ distancing from the UN and withholding WHO funding on maternal and child health and nutrition in the Latin America & Caribbean region. Int J Equity Health. 2026 Mar 12;25(1):65. doi: 10.1186/s12939-026-02785-3. PMID: 41820995.
    • Chen PW, Jansen EC, Cielo CM, Williamson AA, Banker M, Kaye M, Song PXK, Peterson KE, Cantoral A, Téllez-Rojo MM, Goldstein C, Zanna K, Sano A, Moreno JP, Kalkwarf H, Zemel BS, Mitchell JA. Performance of an automated sleep scoring approach for actigraphy data in children and adolescents. Sleep. 2026 Feb 10;49(2):zsaf282. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsaf282. PMID: 40973655.
    • Rodríguez-Carmona Y, Baylin A, Song PXK, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Leung CW, Hebert JR, Shivappa N, Wirth MD, Cantoral A, Meeker JD, Basu N, Tellez-Rojo MM, Peterson KE, Park SK. Metal exposures and their interactions with the dietary inflammatory index on inflammatory biomarkers in Mexican adolescents. Environ Epidemiol. 2026 Jan 22;10(1):e458. doi: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000458. eCollection 2026 Feb. PMID: 41585506.
    • Lee JT, Goodrich JM, Dolinoy DC, Peterson KE, Téllez-Rojo MM, Cantoral A, Torres-Olascoaga LA, Tolentino M, Ruiz-Narváez EA, Jansen EC. Epigenetic age acceleration in adolescence: cross-sectional associations with dietary intake and prospective associations with cardiometabolic risk indicators in a Mexico City cohort. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2026 Jan 23:104574. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2026.104574. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41765714.
    • Rodríguez-Hernández MF, Fernández-Gaxiola AC, Betanzos-Robledo L, Ligonio-Gamas PG, López-Camarillo D, Tanchez-Sandoval DM, Mejía-Becerril SJ, Álvarez-Rojas VN, Cantoral A, Nissan-Schoenfeld E. Food Environment Assessment in Primary Schools Before the Implementation of Mexico’s 2025 School Food Guidelines: A Mixed Method Analysis. Children (Basel). 2026 Jan 6;13(1):88. doi: 10.3390/children13010088. PMID: 41597095.
    • India-Aldana S, Saddiki H, Annicchiarico L, Chirvasuta A, Lesseur C, Landero J, Valvi D, Cantoral A, Baccarelli AA, Téllez-Rojo MM, Wright RO, Colicino E. Impact of a prenatal exposure mixture of metals on DNA methylation-derived cell-type composition in cord blood. Environ Epigenet. 2025 Dec 16;12(1):dvaf035. doi: 10.1093/eep/dvaf035. eCollection 2026. PMID: 41717281.