NHS Faculty

NHS is an interdepartmental program, drawing faculty from across the University. Links below will direct you to the more information on each faculty member.

Name Affiliations Research Interests
O Yaw Addo Emory Hubert Department of Global Health; Global Health Institute; Nutrition Branch-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nutritional assessment and anthropometry, effects of environmental insults (malnutrition, infection, etc.) on physical growth/maturation, obesity/body composition and health in children & adolescents, nutrition and health surveillance systems, maternal child health.
Liliana Aguayo Hubert Department of Global Health Child/Adolescent Health, Social Determinants of Health, Early-Life Origins of Race/Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Risks, Obesity Prevention, Resilience in Youth
Mohammed K. Ali Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center; Department of Epidemiology; Department of Family and Preventive Medicine Diabetes prevention, cardio-metabolic management, health services research
Jessica A. Alvarez Emory School of Medicine; Winship Cancer Institute; Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease Research; HERCULES Exposome Research Center Clinical nutrition, body composition, fat distribution, metabolism, metabolomics, diet quality, obesity, chronic disease, cystic fibrosis
George Beck Department of Medicine/Endocrinology; Winship Cancer Institute Bone metabolism, cancer prevention, and phosphorus consumption
Dan Benardot Georgia State University (Professor Emeritus of Nutrition); Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory College of Arts and Sciences Nutrition and sports performance, within-day energy balance and its relation to injury risk, endurance, and power, the impact of naturally occurring food nitrate on oxygen delivery, fat metabolism, and endurance, nutrition for the Performing Arts 
Heidi Michels Blanck* Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC  Nutrition policies, early care and education obesity standards, food service guidelines, food insecurity, food systems, childhood obesity
Lou Ann Brown Department of Pediatrics Fetal exposures and altered lung immunity
Rosette J. Chakkalakal Emory School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine Type 2 Diabetes Prevention, Type 2 Diabetes Management in Primary Care Settings, Food as Medicine, Health Disparities
Joshua Chandler Department of Pediatrics Metabolomics, nutrient isotope tracing, metabolism regulation and cellular fate and cross-talk in inflammatory pathologies, cystic fibrosis and lung diseases 
Thomas Clasen Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health Environmental epidemiology, with a focus on randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews of household- and community-based interventions in low-income settings
Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center; Department of Sociology Obesity and diabetes, migration, globalization, early-life exposures and subsequent health, family and social networks
Hicham Drissi Department of Orthopaedics; Department of Cell Biology; School of Medicine Skeletal development regeneration and repair, stem cell biology.
Erin Ferranti Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Diet quality, Cardiometabolic disease in pregnancy and postpartum, diabetes prevention and education, microbiome and lipidomics
Rafael Flores-Ayala* Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Hubert Department of Global Health Implementation science of large scale nutrition programs, national nutrition surveys, and surveillance systems as well as studies in nutrition and growth, impact of micronutrient interventions and consequences of early malnutrition.  
Jennifer Frediani School of Nursing; Winship Cancer Institute Nutrition and exercise lifestyle interventions using weight neutral approaches to improve health outcomes related to cardiometabolic diseases, metabolomics, dietary and exercise assessments, clinical trial operations
Young-Mi Go School of Medicine Identification of redox signaling and control mechanisms associated with pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases in response to environmental stressors; integrative omics analysis-based systems biology
Michael Goodman Department of Epidemiology; Winship Cancer Institute Epidemiology of cancer and chronic diseases; endocrine health 
Unjali Gujral Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Race/Ethnic Differences in Diabetes Pathophysiology, Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Diane M. Harris* Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public health strategies to create healthy food environments, particularly those that promote fruit and vegetable intake; food service guidelines standards; farm to institution; fruit and vegetable intake surveillance; food and nutrition security; nutrition policy; public health nutrition
Terry Hartman Department of Epidemiology; Winship Cancer Institute, Emory Prevention Research Center, HERCULES Exposome Research Center Diet assessment; role of diet in cancer prevention and control; weight management; maternal and child health outcomes
Xin Hu School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine; Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory; HERCULES Exposome Research Center Environmental and nutritional contributions to lung disease with special focus on characterizing human exposome and prenatal exposure effects on fetal lung development
Sandra Jackson* Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Participating in a personal capacity) Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, surveillance, and health services research
Dean Jones School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, adjunct appointments in Department of Biochemistry and Department of Pediatrics; Winship Cancer Institute; Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory High-resolution metabolomics, redox biology and oxidative stress, nutritional and environmental factors in human health and disease
Elena Kuklina* Division for Heart Disease and Stroke, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cardiovascular epidemiology across lifespan, health disparities and inequities, healthcare research, prevention and management of multiple chronic conditions, community-clinical linkage, and translational research
Donghai Liang Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health Molecular mechanisms underlying the impact of environmental exposures and nutrition factors on maternal and child health
Felipe Lobelo Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center; Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research; Exercise is Medicine Global Research and Collaboration Center Physical activity and lifestyle interventions, mHealth, obesity, diabetes and CVD in adults and children
Andrea Lopez-Cepero Department of Epidemiology Cardiometabolic diseases, Eating behaviors, Latinx health, Stress, Social Determinants of Health, Behavioral interventions
Hanqi Luo Hubert Department of Global Health Diet assessment, Micronutrient Deficiency, Data science, Software development, maternal and child health outcomes
Michele Marcus Environmental Health and Pediatrics; Emory Schools of Public Health and Medicine Health Effects of food contaminated with brominated flame retardants
Reynaldo Martorell Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Health Institute Maternal and child nutrition, child growth and development, micronutrient malnutrition, the emergence of obesity in developing countries (double burden), long-term consequences of the state of nutrition in early childhood, program design and evaluation, food and nutrition policy.  
Lauren McCullough Epidemiology; Winship Cancer Institute Cancer, obesity, physical activity, epigenetics, disparities
Marjorie L. McCullough* Population Science, American Cancer Society Cancer, chronic disease, diet, nutrition, diet patterns, calcium, vitamin D
Claudia R Morris Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Emory Children's Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airways Disease Research Arginine-nitric oxide pathway, nutritional therapies that target oxidative stress, sickle cell, trauma, asthma, bronchiolitis
K.M Venkat Narayan Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center; Department of Epidemiology; Department of Medicine Diabetes epidemiology and prevention, cardiometabolic diseases, large cohort studies and randomized trials, diabetes unique phenotypes.
Helena Pachon Hubert Department of Global Health; Food Fortification Initiative Food fortification to reduce micronutrient malnutrition
Shivani Patel Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Cardiometabolic disease, health behaviors, child development, social epidemiology, COVID-19 disparities
Anupam Patgiri Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology Therapies for inborn errors of metabolism, metabolomics, mitochondrial energy metabolism, NAD+ in aging and neurodegeneration 
Cria Perrine* Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Breastfeeding, infant and young child nutrition, iodine
Lawrence Phillips Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids; Clinical Studies Center, Atlanta VA Medical Center Diabetes - epidemiology, screening, diagnosis and management, use of lifestyle change (VA's MOVE program) in management of diabetes and prediabetes, effects on health outcomes, resource use and costs, mortality
Usha Ramakrishnan Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center; Emory Global Research For Women; Maternal and child nutrition, nutrition assessment, micronutrient malnutrition, essential fatty acids, nutrition and early childhood growth and development, program implementation and evaluation
Elizabeth Rhodes Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center women's cardiometabolic health, person-centered care for pregnant and postpartum women, health equity, implementation science, community partnerships
Hui Shao Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Microsimulation Modeling, Machine Learning, Diabetes, Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics, Health Technology Assessment, Cost-effectiveness Analysis.
Andrea Sharma* Immunization Safety Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Maternal and child nutrition, micronutrient malnutrition, reproductive health, vaccine safety during pregnancy, surveillance, emergency response
Karen Siegel Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Dietary approaches to diabetes prevention and control, built environment, food and agricultural policy, food insecurity, Food is Medicine, food systems’ impacts on human and planetary health
Rani H Singh Department of Human Genetic;, Department of Pediatrics; Co-Director , Bionutrition Research Unit ;Georgia Translational Science Alliance (CTSA) Clinical  Nutrition for inherited metabolic disorders diagnosed through expanded newborn screening, nutrigenetics /nutrigenomics, metabolomics, indirect calorimetry and body composition, dietary assessments and interventions to evaluate patient outcomes, developing  national evidence-based treatment guidelines and online teaching
Sheela Sinharoy Hubert Department of Global Health; Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health Nutrition-sensitive interventions (e.g. WASH, household air pollution, agriculture, empowerment) in low- and middle-income country settings 
Lisa Staimez Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Type 2 diabetes prevention, pathophysiology, epigenetics
Aryeh Stein Hubert Department of Global Health; Department of Epidemiology; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Life course epidemiology, nutrition and cognitive function, nutrition and chronic disease, first 1000 days, growth, anthropometry, adolescence
Vicky Stevens* Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society Molecular and genetics risk factors for cancer, obesity, smoking cessation, metabolomics
Parmi Suchdev Department of Pediatrics; Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Health Institute Global health, micronutrient malnutrition, nutrition and infection/inflammation
Yan Sun Department of Epidemiology Gene-environment interaction, multi-omics of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes complications and chronic infection in multi-ancestry population; bioinformatics, machine learning and AI applications of multi-omics and health care data.
Vin Tangpricha Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids Vitamin D, cystic fibrosis, chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis
Viola Vaccarino Department of Epidemiology; Department of Medicine (Cardiology) Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, women’s health, behavioral and emotional risk factors for cardiovascular disease
Jithin Sam Varghese Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center chronic disease epidemiology, continuous glucose monitoring, electronic health records, machine learning
Miriam Vos Department of Pediatrics Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, pediatric obesity treatment and prevention, lipid metabolism, fructose/sugar 
Rachel Waford Hall Hubert Department of Global Health; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Early prevention and intervention for severe mental illness, social determinants of mental health, community education and advocacy for mental health promotion, global mental health
Amy Webb Girard Hubert Department of Global Health; Department of Epidemiology; Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Policy and Practice; Emory Urban Health Initiative; Masters in Development Practice Program Social determinants of maternal and child nutrition, food systems and food security, nutrition program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, mixed methods 
Mary Beth Weber Hubert Department of Global Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center Diabetes prevention, lifestyle behaviors, implementation and translational research, mixed methods
Neale Weitzmann Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipids Bone biology, osteoimmunology, metabolic bone disease, HIV infection and bone loss
Jean Welsh Department of Pediatrics; Child Wellness Department, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Child nutrition and obesity/chronic disease prevention, community-based prevention and treatment programs
Anne M. Williams Hubert Department of Global Health Double burden of malnutrition, innovative techniques to improve maternal and child nutrition in low income settings, breast milk biology, role of infection in nutritional assessment
Melissa Young Hubert Department of Global Health Maternal and child nutrition (maternal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, anemia, micronutrient deficiencies and early growth failure), program implementation and evaluation
Chris Yun Department of Medicine; Winship Cancer Institute Cancer, IBD, signal transduction, phospholipids, diarrhea
Thomas Ziegler School of Medicine; Winship Cancer Institute; Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease Research; HERCULES Exposome Research Center Clinical nutrition, body composition, metabolism, metabolomics, diet quality, obesity, chronic disease, cystic fibrosis, nutrition support
*Adjunct Faculty. These faculty members can supervise research rotations and Co-mentor dissertations.