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Muzi Na
Muzi Na
Associate Professor
Broadhurst Career Development Professor for the Study of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 2019-2022
Summary Statement

Muzi Na’s research explores the mechanisms leading to health disparities, particularly with interests in social and behavioral determinants, such as food insecurity, diet and dietary behavior, psychosocial exposures, in relation to mental wellbeing and sleep health.

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
  • Graduate Program
  • Na Lab
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Education
  • PhD in Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • MHS in Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Phone
Office Address
108C Chandlee Lab
University Park, PA 16802
Fax
814-863-6103
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Professional Credentials

PhD, MHS

Research Interests
  • Global and domestic food insecurity
  • Maternal and child nutrition
  • Nutrition and sleep health during pregnancy
  • Food insecurity, nutrition, and mental health
Professional Experience

Dr. Muzi Na is a nutritional epidemiologist and her primary research interest is to understand the mechanisms leading to health disparities in disadvantaged populations, particularly with interests in modifiable factors such as food insecurity, dietary behavior, psychosocial exposures, and their complex relationship to mental and sleep health in both domestic and international populations.

Grants and Research Projects

Food insecurity and mental health:

  • Diet and stress responses in low-income rural adults under the dynamics of food insecurity. NIH-Penn State CTSI. 2018-2021 (Status: ongoing; Role: PI)
  • Food insecurity and mental wellbeing. FAO Voices of the Hungry Project. 2016-2021. (Status: ongoing; Role: PI)

Dietary and feeding behaviors:

  • Strategic layering to improve household gender dynamics for optimal nutrition in Niger. USAID & CRS, Niger. 2021 – 2023 (Status: pending; Role: mPI)
  • Assessment of an egg campaign and feeding behaviors in young children in Mozambique. GAIN. 2020 (Status: terminated due to COVID-19; Role: Co-PI)
  • Regional landscape analysis of trends and predictors of young children’s diets in selected countries in UNICEF’s West and Central Africa Region. UNICEF. 2019 – 2020 (Status: completed; Role: PI)

Nutritional risk factors and consequences of RLS:

  • RLS in pregnancy and fetal growth outcomes. Data Use Agreement with NICHD. 2020 – 2022 (Status: ongoing; Role: PI)
  • Prepregnancy risk factors of incident RLS during pregnancy. Data Use Agreement with NICHD. 2019 – 2020 (Status: completed; Role: Co-PI)
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