Professors Pedro Alviola IV of the School of Management (SOM) and Juma Novie Alviola of the Department of Food Science and Chemistry (DFSC) contributed to the multidisciplinary character of the research on children’s nutrition that is ready for implementation by UP Mindanao upon funding approval by the Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD).
In the meeting with SOM faculty, led by Dean Aurelia Luzviminda Gomez, DFSC Prof. Alviola, and the DOST-PCHRD team led by Senior Science Research Specialist Marianne Joy Laya on December 6, 2024, in UP Mindanao, the participants agreed to endorse the project’s memorandum of agreement to their respective legal officers and heads of agencies for approval.
The research proposal, titled “Assessment of Nutrition and Development of Appropriate Food Product Intervention among Children in Flood-prone and Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas in Davao de Oro Province, Philippines,” was approved by the PCHRD executive director on June 27, 2023.
The above photo shows (seated, left-right) SOM Dean Aurelia Luzviminda Gomez, Prof. Juma Novie Alviola, Prof. Pedro Alviola IV, and DOST-PCHRD Research and Development Management Division’s Senior SRS Marianne Joy Laya, PTS I Arnestie Dalugdog, and PTA IV Christel Leo Romano, with (standing, left-right) UP Mindanao SOM’s Research Associate Melissa Loquias, Asst.Prof. Shemiah Gail Placencia, Instructor Francis Levi Durano, and Asst. Prof. Imee Marie Acopiado.
The proposal co-authors are SOM assistant professors Jon Marx Sarmiento, Roxanne Aguinaldo, and Miko Mariz Castro, and DFSC Asst. Prof. Kriza Faye Calumba-Cabual.
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