David Jacobs, PhD

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. 

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