Elizabeth Yakes

Once graduated from Andrew High School, Elizabeth Yakes attended Case Western Reserve University where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and her Master’s Degree in Public Health Nutrition. She then went on to earn her Doctoral degree in Epidemiology with a concentration in pediatric and prenatal epidemiology from the University of California, Davis. Yakes has been a teacher, Editor-In-Chief, Nutritionist and Graduate Fellow, Researcher and much more. She has volunteered as a diabetes education, a nutrition consultant at a Women’s Refuge and has held the post of Education and Public Relations Coordinator for “CROP Walk for Hunger” in California. Her hands-on research on the nutritional effect of maternal women in Bangladesh and her research with large nutritional intervention in West Africa shows how she puts her talents for the betterment of others.