Current Students

Hareem P. Zahid, MS

Research interests: Addressing gaps in global nutrition through innovative dietary interventions and the impact of dietary components and whole foods on cardiovascular health with a specific interest in zinc metabolism and protein.

Andrea Gil

Research interests: Reducing disparities in cardiometabolic diseases in underserved communities, particularly through the development of interventions and policies that increase health awareness and nutrition literacy.

Hussain M. Chharawalla

Research interests: Maternal and child nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, precision nutrition, dietary assessment methods, gut microbiome, and chronic disease risk.

Nicholas Fergusson Russell, RD

Research interests: Food insecurity, Nutrition intervention and evaluation of nutrition intervention, and Malnutrition (undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies).

Madelyn Bradley, MS

Research interests: Creating effective, science-backed interventions to prevent and treat malnutrition in women and children in low-income countries

Lidya Genene Abebe, MPH

Research interests: Nutritional Epidemiology, maternal and child nutrition, macronutrients, global nutrition and cancer research

Christabel Domfe, MS

Research interests: Use of novel technologies for dietary assessment, design and implementation of interventions addressing food insecurity among low-income populations

Lauren Thompson, MS

Research interests: Maternal and infant nutrition, early childhood growth and development, nutritional epidemiology, epidemiological study design, global health

Davrina Rianda, MD

Research interests: Maternal-child nutrition and health; gut-brain axis; early life nutrition on child brain development

Manny Gyimah, MPH

Research interests: Nutritional epidemiology; nutrient deficiencies and pathways to non-communicable diseases; nutrition interventions for low-income communities; implementation science