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Shariwa received her undergraduate degrees in Physiology and Nutrition at the University of Arizona and her MS in Biomedical Visualization from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she developed an app to mediate patient-provider interactions surrounding obesity diagnoses. She then worked at the University of Chicago creating scientific visualizations and developing a tobacco cessation curriculum.
Shariwa is now a doctoral candidate in Community Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Shariwa’s current work focuses on the design, development, and implementation of digital behavioral interventions focused on nutrition, physical activity, and mindful parenting for parents of preschoolers in low-income and rural areas of the US. Her broad research interests lie in developing, implementing, and sustaining interventions for improving health behaviors through the appropriate and personal use of communication, technology, and behavioral theory.