Dr. Andrew G Hall is a research associate at the Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. He earned, from the University of California, Davis, a B.S. in biochemistry, a Ph.D. in nutritional biology, and a Postdoc in nutrition. His research interests focus on assessments of zinc absorption, metabolism, and homeostasis in domestic and international populations consuming various zinc-containing foods, as well as examining fatty acid metabolism.