Carolina is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Her doctoral research focuses on evaluating the implementation of Brazil’s front-of-package nutrition labeling regulation and developing a monitoring system for packaged food and beverage labels. Carolina is currently an International Visiting Graduate Student in the L’Abbé Lab at the University of Toronto, conducting research on front-of-package nutrition labeling to analyze retail availability in the Canadian market by comparing product launch data from Mintel GNPD with product availability on U of T’s Food Label Information and Price (FLIP) database.

Carolina completed her MSc in Public Health at the University of Campinas in 2023. Her previous research focused on nutrition and health claims on food packaging. Her broader research interests include food and nutrition policies, nutrition labeling, marketing, the implementation and monitoring of regulatory policies, the food environment, and strategies to promote healthier food choices.