David Jacobs, PhD

Mayo Professor of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

David Jacobs

Contact Info

jacob004@umn.edu

Office Phone 612-624-4196

Office Address:
300 West Bank Office Building

Mailing Address:
1300 S 2nd St
Room 300 West Bank Office Building
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Administrative Assistant Name
Sharanya Johnson

Administrative Email
sharanya@umn.edu

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

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