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Graduate Program Adminstrative Assistant
Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Department Head
Summary Statement

Public health nutrition promotion + disease prevention with underserved, vulnerable youth and families including: food and nutrition insecurity; developing/evaluating school- and community-based nutrition interventions; socio-environmental influences of eating behaviors. 

Department
  • Administration
Associate Professor
Summary Statement

Micronutrients and pregnancy; placenta; adverse pregnancy outcomes; plasma volume; public health issues in low- and middle-income countries.

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Director Metabolic Kitchen and Children's Eating Behavior Laboratory
Summary Statement

Eating behaviors in children; neural mechanisms of taste preference and eating behaviors in children; food marketing and childhood obesity; genetic and neural influences in taste in children.

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Nutritional Sciences
Summary Statement

As a social and behavioral scientist, Stephen Kodish is interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions aimed to improve the health and nutrition of vulnerable populations globally.

Department
  • Biobehavioral Health - BBH
Assistant Professor
Director, Health, Ingestive Behavior, and Technology Laboratory
Summary Statement

Dr. Masterson broadly investigated how technology and media can influence eating behavior and he works to adapt these tools and methods to improve health.

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
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
Professor and Helen A. Guthrie Chair
Director, Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior
Summary Statement

Satiety and obesity; Influence of food characteristics such as variety, energy density, and portion size on energy intake across the lifespan.

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Summary Statement

The consequences of over-nutrition and the stress of "western diets" related to lipid mediators and a global shift of dietary fatty acids; identifying markers of disease and better ways to prevent or manage disease.

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
Assistant Professor of Nutritional Physiology and Microbiome
Summary Statement

Macronutrient (dietary fibers)-gut microbiome interaction; microbiome- informed dietary interventions to improve chronic inflammatory diseases; mechanism(s) by which gut microbiota-derived metabolites (and products) alleviate or aggravate metabolic syndrome and IBD.

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
Associate Professor
Lloyd & Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Metabolic Physiology
Summary Statement

Central nervous system governs feeding behaviour and importantly, vice versa, the food consumed and the resulting neural and hormonal gut signals affect a broad network of neural circuits and behaviours.

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR
Professor
Director, Center for Childhood Obesity Research
Summary Statement

Behavioral (feeding practices, sleep) and individual factors that impact food intake; Responsive parenting; Clinical and community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions

Department
  • Nutritional Sciences - NUTR