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Faculty

Primary Faculty Within the Human Nutrition Program Area

All ranks of professors, scientists, and research associates can serve as an MSPH adviser. All ranks of professors can serve as doctoral student advisers, and all ranks of professors and scientists can serve as doctoral student co-advisers.

Professors, Assistant Professors, and Associate Professors

Laura Caulfield
Professor
International Health

Laura Caulfield, PhD, researches nutrition problems affecting maternal, infant, and child health in the United States and globally.

Parul Christian
Professor
International Health

Parul Christian, DrPH '96, MSc, studies how to improve maternal and child nutrition and prevent micronutrient deficiencies with effective solutions in low-income settings.

Joel Gittelsohn
Professor
International Health

Joel Gittelsohn, PhD, MS, is a medical anthropologist and public health nutritionist who develops programs to improve food access and reduce risk for chronic diseases.

Jean Humphrey
Professor
International Health

Jean Humphrey, ScD '92, conducts research on finding feasible solutions to the underlying causes of undernutrition, morbidity, and mortality of infants and young children in low-income countries.

Assistant Scientist
Epidemiology

Matti Marklund, PhD, MSE, researches diet-disease links, focusing on nutrition, public health, and cardiometabolic epidemiology, and evaluates the impact of food policies on health

Mika Matsuzaki
Assistant Professor
International Health

Mika Matsuzaki, PhD, MPH, MS, is a life-course epidemiologist studying how policies, built environments, and equity affect nutrition-related chronic diseases and obesity.

Yeeli Mui
Assistant Professor
International Health

Yeeli Mui, PhD '17, MPH, examines structural interventions to address food system issues and advance health equity through the lens of urban policy and planning.

Amanda Palmer
Assistant Professor

Amanda Palmer, PhD ’11, MHS ’06, studies interventions that may help to improve nutrition and protect the health of infants and children in low- and middle-income countries.

Julia Wolfson
Associate Professor
International Health

Julia Wolfson, PhD '16, MPP, studies individual, structural, and policy factors that influence food choices, diet quality, and diet-related health outcomes.

Research Professors, Assistant Research Professors, and Associate Research Professors

Kerry Schulze
Research Professor
International Health

Kerry Schulze, PhD ’03, MS, studies micronutrient status biomarkers, particularly for mothers, infants, children, and adolescents in nutritionally compromised populations.

Andrew Thorne-Lyman
Associate Research Professor
International Health

Andrew Thorne-Lyman, ScD, MHS ’97, conducts research on food systems to identify solutions that improve the nutrition and health of vulnerable populations in domestic and international contexts.

Assistant, Associate, and Senior Scientists

Senior Research Associates and Research Associates

Research Associate
International Health

Sarah Baker, MSPH '15, studies nutrition status of mothers and their babies through laboratory assessment of biological fluids

Shelley Walton
Research Associate II
International Health

Shelley Walton, MPH, RD, is a nutritionist and maternal and child health specialist focusing on improved nutrition and food security implementation in vulnerable populations.

Ellina Wood, MPH, RDN
Research Associate
International Health

Ellina Wood, MPH, RDN is a nutritionist examining how to improve nutrition and diet-related health outcomes among populations in low-resource settings