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. | ||