David Jacobs, PhD
Mayo Professor of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

Contact Info
Mayo Professor of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
PhD, Mathematical Statistics, Johns Hopkins University
BS, Mathematics, Hofstra University
Summary
My research focuses on cardiovascular and chronic disease epidemiology and nutritional epidemiology. Specifically, I take part in a number of ongoing, long-term studies about cardiovascular health and research dietary patterns and chronic disease; diabetes; periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease; measurement of physical activity and diet; lung function; blood pressure; and implications of low serum cholesterol for stroke, infection, and other noncardiovascular diseases.
Expertise
Aging, chronic disease, environment & exposures, equity, food & nutrition, genetics, infectious disease, injuries, methods, chronic disease epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, physical activity, smoking, biomarkers, subclinical disease
Awards & Recognition
Research
Research Funding Grants
Principal Investigator
- 2016–2017, University of California San Diego, "The ESPINA Study Follow-up Examination in 2016: Environmental Polluntants and Child/Adolescent Development," Principal Investigator
- 2015–2017, Columbia University, "The Subgingival Microbiome and Impaired Glucose Regulation," Principal Investigator
- 2010–2017, NIH Nat'l Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst., "Epidemiology: Oxidative Stress and Early Atherosclerosis," Principal Investigator
Co-Investigator
- 2016–2017, Des Moines University, "miRNAs, Whole Diet, and Coronary Heart Disease," Co-Investigator
- 2016–2017, Columbia University, "Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease in Non-Smokers," Co-Investigator
- 2015–2021, University of Washington, "Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)," Co-Investigator
- 2015–2019, Columbia University, "Pulmonary microvascular perfusion in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis," Co-Investigator
- 2015–2017, University of California Irvine, "Novel Analyses of Abdominal Computed Tomography Data in CARDIA," Co-Investigator
- 2014–2017, Northwestern University, "Lung Function Decline and Disease Risk from Young Adulthood to Middle Age," Co-Investigator
- 2014–2019, NIH Nat'l Inst of Child Health/Human Dev, "Maternal Obesity, Breast Milk Composition, and Infant Growth," Co-Investigator
- 2014–2019, NIH Nat'l Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst., "Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) - Field Center - Minneapolis, Minnesota," Co-Investigator
Media
In The News
In The Media
- EPA adopts fringe science claim that small doses of pollution are healthy (EcoWatch)
- Scientist says some pollution is good for you — a disputed claim Trump’s EPA has embraced (Los Angeles Times)
- UMN nutritionist presents a fat problem for modern science (Star Tribune)
- Nutritionist Ancel Keys, once the pride of UMN research, presents a fat problem for modern science (Minnesota Daily)