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During her time at Cornell, Dr. Devine focused on understanding how working women and men, especially those in low income families with children, manage food and eating in the context of work and family demands, social networks, and food and eating environments and on fostering community environments that promote healthy eating.

The nutritional concerns of women, infants, and children and developing effective interventions to address these concerns have been the focus of my scholarly work. Our research group used e- and m-health communications technologies to help pregnant and postpartum women develop and maintain behaviors that promote healthy body weights, which involved faculty and students in the Communications Department, as well as, the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell and faculty collaborators at the University of Rochester Medical Center.  Data analysis determined the

The Program Leader for Cornell Cooperative Extension-NYC provides leadership to the Nutrition and Health Program Area in NYC. The position involves long term strategic planning, program management, fund development, program development, evaluation, coordination of several nutrition and health programs for limited resource families (primarily SNAP-Ed, EFNEP and Farmers Market Nutrition Education program) and coordination of special projects in collaboration with community-based organizations that serve pregnant and parenting adolescents and breastfeeding mothers; work closely with the  CUCE-NYC

I am driven by medical and economic consequence of age-related weight gain. Age-related weight gain is a description of the epidemiological fact that as we grow older, we are growing fatter. And the fatter we grow, the serious medical consequences become causing increased suffering financial costs. We have been studying obesity for several hundreds of years and despite our knowledge of the consequence of obesity we cannot tell the public how to prevent from growing fatter. I

My interests relate to the formulation, implementation and evaluation of nutrition policy, primarily in low and middle income countries.  My approach to this work has been from a transdisciplinary, engaged and problem-oriented perspective, in which the key research questions and choice of methods emerges in the course of engaging with policy and program actors at global, national or sub-national levels.  This approach is guided by robust theoretical frameworks and ensures that the research is responsive to real-world concerns and more likely to