Students
NHS students are doing amazing things! There is too much to list everything here, but here is a snapshot of some of their work.
Year of entry: 2019
Previous education: American University of Beirut (BSc, Nutrition and Dietetics), American University of Beirut (MSc, Nutrition), Licensed Dietician
Mentor: Dr. K. M. Venkat Narayan
Research interests: Non-communicable diseases (T2DM); obesity and inflammation; maternal-child health outcomes; environmental exposures; and transcriptomics.
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1saUf3YAAAAJ&hl=en
Year of Entry: 2020
Previous Education: Saint Louis University (BS, Nutrition & Dietetics, RD, MS Nutrition & Dietetics, MPH)
Faculty Mentor: Aryeh Stein
Research Interests: life course epidemiology, early life nutrition impacts on child growth and development, food security, food systems, nutrition sensitive interventions, implementation science, policy & program evaluation
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FSgKw1MAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Year of Entry: 2021
Previous Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA, Anthropology); Emory University (MPH, Epidemiology)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Nutritional epidemiology, maternal and child nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, surveillance, health disparities
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BOYnnJoAAAAJ
Ben Cousineau
Year of Entry: 2019
Previous Education: Northern Michigan University (BS, Sports Science), University of Wyoming (MS, Kinesiology and Health)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Plant-based nutrition, food sustainability, treatment and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases, and cystic fibrosis
Minh-Cam (Candice) Duong
Year of Entry: 2018
Previous Education: Nanyang Technological University (BS, Life Sciences), University of Michigan (MPH, Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: urbanization and diet, informal food sector, food supply and distribution, food waste, maternal and child nutrition, food safety, antimicrobial resistance in agriculture, mixed-methods, southeast asia.
Recent Work: https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/145/7/1541/4616781
Moses Ekwueme
Year of Entry: 2021
Previous Education: Imo State University (BS Nutrition and Dietetics); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine MS Nutrition for Global Health
Faculty Mentor:
Research Interests: Design, implementation, and evaluation of community-based interventions aimed at improving micronutrient status of women and children
Year of Entry: 2021
Previous Education: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (BS, Nutrition), Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (MS, Clinical Nutrition), Instituto de Estudios Universitarios (MS, Health Institutions Management).
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Translational nutrition, immunometabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, omics sciences
Recent Work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/lucia%20a.gonzalez%20ramirez.1/bibliography/public/
Year of Entry: 2022
Previous Education: Washington University in St. Louis (MPH, Global Health) & Fisk University (BA, Biology)
Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Early child nutrition, especially human milk feeding and its impact on individual, family, and population health across the life course; global maternal-child health; implementation science; Sub-Saharan Africa and the Black diaspora
Recent work: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2018&q=Aishat+Gambari&hl=en&as_sdt=0,11
Priya M. Gupta
Year of entry: 2018
Previous Education: Bryn Mawr College (BA, Anthropology and Public Health) Emory University (MPH, Global Epidemiology)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Maternal and Child Nutrition, Micronutrient Deficiencies, Complementary Feeding and Child Growth, Maternal Nutrition and Birth Outcomes, Micronutrient Supplementation and Fortification, Life-course Epidemiology, Surveillance
Recent Work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29070559 , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29596306
Helaina Huneault
Year of Entry: 2020
Previous Education: University of Windsor (BHK, Kinesiology), Wayne State University (RDN, Nutrition and Dietetics)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Nutritional metabolomics, precision nutrition, cardiometabolic health, gut microbiome, chronic inflammation, aging, nutrigenomics, epigenetics
Year of Entry: 2019
Previous Education: University of South Carolina (BA/BS, Anthropology), Montana State (MS, Sustainable Food Systems)
Faculty Mentor: Yaw Addo
Research Interests: Food systems, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, biofortification, micronutrient malnutrition, anemia treatment and prevention
Recent work: Micronutrient analysis of amaranth grain genotypes; landscape analysis of social and behavior change within nutrition-sensitive agriculture projects
Year of Entry: 2022
Previous Education: Yale University (BA, Sociology), Yale School of Public Health (MPH, Chronic Disease Epidemiology)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: cardiometabolic diseases, obesity, global health, implementation science, health system strengthening
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=F8CtjroAAAAJ
Paula-Dene Nesbeth
Year of Entry: 2018
Previous Education: Grinnell College (BA, Biological Chemistry), Tufts University (MS, Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Ziegler and Jessica Alvarez
Research Interests: obesity, chronic inflammation, gut microbiome, precision nutrition
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=WOA2A0gAAAAJ
Jane Obi
Year of Entry: 2019
Previous Education: Georgia State University (BS, Nutrition); Baylor (BS); Georgia Southern (MPH, Epidemiology)
Faculty Mentor: Mary Beth Weber
Research Interests: Contextual factors surrounding obesity prevalence & prevention; health disparities; retail food environments; systems science; chronic disease prevention
Year of Entry: 2022
Previous Education: Hallym University (BS, Food Science and Nutrition; MS, Food Science and Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Molecular Nutrition, Cell Biology, Prevention of Chronic Diseases, Pathophysiology, Chronic Inflammation
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hVIUiEEAAAAJ&hl=en
Brigitte Pfluger
Year of Entry: 2019
Previous Education: East Carolina University (BA, International Studies; BA, Hispanic Studies), University of Florida (MA, Latin American Studies)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests include micronutrient deficiencies, cognition, child and global nutrition, One Health, infectious and zoonotic diseases, agriculture and food systems
Euisun (Irene) Pyo
Year of Entry: 2019
Previous Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (BS, Biochemistry), Seoul National University (MS, Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Science), Emory University (MPH, Global Epidemiology)
Faculty Mentor: Jean Welsh
Research Interests: food environments and nutrition policy, chronic disease prevention and behavior change interventions, child/adolescent nutrition, implementation sciences, nutritional epidemiology.
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ck7tyWwAAAAJ
Year of Entry: 2022
Previous Education: University of Hertfordshire, UK (BSc, Nutrition), University College London, UK (MSc, Clinical and Public Health Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Diabetes, maternal and child health, nutritional epidemiology, population health survey, food and nutrition policy, and obesity and obesity-related chronic conditions and diseases.
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QeD94y8AAAAJ
Year of Entry: 2020
Previous Education: University of Ghana (BSc, Nutrition and Food Science), University of Nottingham (MPH, International Public Health)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Maternal and child nutrition, breastfeeding, early nutrition and later life outcomes, double burden of malnutrition, food environments
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=3&user=eD2RG5QAAAAJ
Meriah Schoen
Year of Entry: 2017
Previous Education: Emory University (BS, Anthropology and Human Biology) Georgia State University (MS, RDN, Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: Rani Singh
Research Interests: Inborn Errors of Metabolism, The effect of early feeding strategies on body composition
Recent Work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27845744
Year of Entry: 2020
Previous Education: Boston University (BS, Human Physiology and MPH, Global Health)
Faculty Mentor: Sheela Sinharoy and Thomas Clasen
Research Interests: Maternal and child nutrition, birth outcomes, child growth and development, global health, surveillance, implementation science
Recent Work: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/69/Supplement_4/S262/5584386
Year of Entry: 2018
Previous Education: The Ohio State University (BS, Biomedical Science), Emory University (MPH, Epidemiology)
Faculty Mentor: Usha Ramakrishnan
Research Interests: precision nutrition, metabolic programming, maternal and child nutrition, metabolomics, cardiometabolic health, gene x environment interactions
Recent work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=x8Ls7hEAAAAJ
Lan Tran
Year of Entry: 2021
Education: Hanoi School of Public Health (Bachelor in Public Health); Hanoi Medical University (MPH Public Health)
Research Interests: Developing new research to find innovative solutions, as well as evaluate integrated interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of women and children in resource limited settings.
Chin-An Yang
Year of Entry: 2021
Previous Education: National Taiwan University (BS Biochemical Science and MS Biochemical Science and Technology)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Non-communicable diseases, nutritional -omics, gut microbiome, precision nutrition, nutritional biomarkers
Year of Entry: 2021
Previous Education: Purdue University (BS, Nutrition & Dietetics), Case Western Reserve University (MS & Dietetic Internship, Public Health Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research interests: chronic diseases (especially cardiometabolic diseases), precision nutrition, gut microbiome, metabolomics, nutritional epidemiology, nutritional biomarkers
Recent work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=eqQALZgAAAAJ
Xinyu “Jocelyn” Zhu
Year of Entry: 2021
Previous Education: McGill University (BSc. Nutrition); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MPH, Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: nutrition policy (SSB tax, restaurant menu labeling, nutrition education, etc.), public health nutrition interventions aiming to address food insecurity among underserved population.