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
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
Jenna Feeley
Year of entry: 2023
Previous education: University of Maryland (B.S., Nutrition and Food Science)
Mentor: TBD
Research interests: The intersection between nutrition and chronic health conditions, the gut-brain axis, the microbiome, metabolomics, and maternal and child nutrition
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BDz1Ho8AAAAJ
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: Dr. Miriam Vos
Research Interests: Nutritional metabolomics & lipidomics, precision nutrition, cardiometabolic health, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, gut microbiome, 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: Micronutrient malnutrition, dietary diversity, food-based approaches, anemia treatment and prevention
Recent work: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5694-9608
Year of entry: 2023
Previous education: University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (BSc & MSc, Food and Nutrition), Wageningen University, The Netherlands (MSc, Nutrition and Health)
Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Maternal and child nutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, child growth and development, non-communicable diseases (heart disease, cancer, disease, and diabetes).
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=5nJlzmkAAAAJ
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
Leandra Lacayo
Year of Entry: 2023
Previous Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BSc, Psychology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MPH, Nutrition),
Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Chronic disease prevention, food insecurity, implementation science, health disparities, food equity, global health
Zhongyu Li
Year of Entry: 2023
Previous education: University of Washington (BS, Biology), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (MSPH, Human Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: chronic disease (cancer, diabetes, and obesity) prevention, Food is Medicine, implementation science, cost effectiveness, nutritional epidemiology, nutrigenetics, precision nutrition.
Recent work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dbIKtu4AAAAJ&hl=en
Gahyun Lim
Year of Entry: 2023
Previous Education: Kyung Hee University (BS Food and Nutrition, MS Food and Nutrition)
Faculty Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: OMICs technologies, Nutritional Epidemiology, Organ Crosstalk, Pathophysiology, Metabolic Diseases, Meta-Analysis
Recent Work:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9345-2767
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 micronutrient deficiencies, cognition, child and global nutrition, One Health, infectious and zoonotic diseases, agriculture and food systems
Josh Preston
Year of Entry: 2023
Previous Education: University of Kentucky (BSc, Biology), Emory University School of Medicine (MD, in progress)
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dean Jones
Research Interests Aging, metabolism, biomarker discovery, endocrinology, nutritional interventions, critical care nutrition, women's health and menopause, biology of sex differences, cardiometabolic disease, type II diabetes, exposomics, maternal and child health, toxicology
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_ZUkfa4AAAAJ&hl=en
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: Shivani A. Patel
Research Interests: Maternal and child health, nutritional epidemiology, cardiometabolic health, food systems, and nutrition policies
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=3&user=eD2RG5QAAAAJ
Selin Sergin
Year of Entry: 2023
Previous Education: Michigan State University (BS, Nutritional Sciences)
Mentor: TBD
Research Interests: Global health nutrition, nutrition policies and programs, micronutrient nutrition, nutritional biomarkers, and health inequities
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://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LIx5yosAAAAJ&hl=en&inst=15365353816232672843&oi=ao
Lan Tran
Year of Entry: 2021
Education: Hanoi School of Public Health (Bachelor in Public Health); Hanoi Medical University (MPH Public Health)
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Usha Ramakrishnan
Research Interests: Maternal and child health and nutrition, nutritional assessment, child development
Recent Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=m_xlqCUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Chin-An “Simon” 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: Dean Jones and Young-Mi Go
Research interests: Alzheimer's disease, metabolomics, nutritional biomarkers, gut microbiome, nutritional epidemiology, chronic diseases, precision nutrition
Recent work:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lB_9Yx4AAAAJ&hl=en&inst=15365353816232672843&oi=ao
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.