Dr. Marie K. Fialkowski is an associate researcher, director of the Nutrition Support Shared Resource (NSSR), and faculty director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, USA. She earned her PhD in health promotion and disease prevention from Purdue University and completed her postdoctoral studies in integrated childhood obesity prevention at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research interests include nutrition and health in indigenous populations, nutritional assessment, and infant nutrition and lactation.