Nutritional Epidemiology

Nutritional epidemiology is an area of epidemiology that involves research to:

• Examine the role of nutrition in the etiology of disease.
• Monitor the nutritional status of populations.
• Develop and evaluate interventions to achieve and maintain healthful eating patterns among populations.
• Examine the relationship and synergy between nutrition and physical activity in health and disease

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Core Faculty:
Shirley A. Beresford PhD	beresfrd@u.washington.edu
Adam Drewnowski PhD, MA	adamdrew@u.washington.edu
Glen E. Duncan PhD, MS	duncag@u.washington.edu
Annette L. Fitzpatrick, PhD	fitzpal@u.washington.edu
Mario Kratz, PhD	mkratz@fhcrc.org
Johanna W. Lampe PhD	jlampe@fhcrc.org
Riki Peters, PhD, MPH	upeters@fhcrc.org
Neli Ulrich, PhD	nulrich@fhcrc.org
Emily White PhD	ewhite@fhcrc.org

 

Adjunct Faculty
Anne Vernez-Moudon, Doctor es Science	moudon@u.washington.edu

Affiliate Faculty
Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD, BSc	mneuhous@fhcrc.org

 

 Relevant Courses

• EPI 502 Phys Activity in Health and Disease
• EPI 538 Nutritional Epidemiology
• NUTR 550 Obesity: Prevention and Control
• NUTR 562 Nutrition and Chronic Disease
  

Training Grants:

• Biobehavioral Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program (only accepts current students)
  Contact: Donald Patrick, PhD, Professor, Program Director 
                bcpt@u.washington.edu
  
• Cancer Epidemiology and Biostatistics Training Grant
  Contact: Tom Vaughan, MD, MPH, Profefssor
                tvaughan@u.washington.edu
• Cancer Prevention Training - Nutrition, Exercise & Genetics
  Contact: Emily White, PhD, Professor, Director
               ewhite@fhcrc.org
• Cardiovascular Epidmeiology Traning Grant
  Contact: David Siscovick, MD, MPH, dsisk@u.washington.edu
               Bruce Psaty, MD, PhD, psaty@u.washington.edu
               Susan R. Heckbert MD, MPH, PhD, heckbert@u.washington.edu
               Nicholas L. Smith, PhD, nlsmith@u.washington.edu
  
• Interdisciplinary Cancer Training (only accepts current students)
  Contact: Marci Burden
               mburden@fhcrc.org
  

 

For more information on courses in epidemiology or nutritional sciences go to:

• Epidemiology Course Catalog
• Nutritional Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Program website

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Areas of Faculty Research: Faculty Research Aging/Neuroepidemiology Cancer Epidemiology Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Epidemiology Clinical Epidemiology Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology Epidemiologic Methods Genetic Epidemiology Health Disparities/Social Determinants of Health Infectious Diseases Injury and Violence Epidemiology International Health Maternal & Child Health/Women's Health Nutritional Epidemiology Physical Activity, Obesity and Diabetes Psychiatric Epidemiology Pharmacoepidemiology Public Health Practice

This page was last updated on January 28, 2013