Food & Nutrition
These faculty focus on food access, food quality, food safety, eating patterns...
Associate Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Environment & exposures, food & nutrition, alcohol, tobacco, DNA damage, mass spectrometry, exposome, cancer, analytical chemistry, metabolism
Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
An internationally recognized expert on diseases at the human-animal interface. Areas of expertise: Epidemiology, infection control and prevention, designing and evaluating surveillance programs, risk communication, and development of educational and outreach programs.
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Environment & exposure, equity, food & nutrition, mother & children, food policy, food environment, low income food access, food behavior, physical activity, obesity prevention, community interventions
Associate Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Dr. Frizzell has been honored to be a tribal technical advisor for health care and services policy for over 29 years. She has extensive experience in working with countless tribes across the nation to enhance their infrastructures and assist in their quest for self-determination. She was chosen to be in the first class of Rural Health Fellows, a program initiated by the Office of Rural Health Policy and served as technical adviser and writer for the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (P.L. 94-437 as amended).
She currently serves on the national Office of Minority Heath’s Advisory Committee, Governing Board of the Minneapolis Indian Health Board; Global Health Faculty Associate; and an Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.
She developed six classes in American Indian Health and Wellness; and an American Indian Graduate Minor and a Regents Certificate for American Indian Public Health and Wellness. She also teaches and provides presentations on tribal public health and wellness.
Associate Professor
Division of Health Policy and Management
Equity, politics, public opinion, communication, media
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Food & nutrition, obesity prevention, dietary assessment, nutritional epidemiology, food & nutrient databases, nutrition surveillance, public health nutrition
Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Environment & exposures, food & nutrition, infectious disease, foodborne disease, surveillance, outbreak investigation, exposure assessment, food safety, epidemiology, public health preparedness, public health practice
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Aging, chronic disease, environment & exposures, equity, food & nutrition, genetics, infectious disease, injuries, methods, chronic disease epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, physical activity, smoking, biomarkers, subclinical disease
Associate Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Stress tolerance in foodborne pathogens, antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial adjuvants, molecular microbiology
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Equity, food & nutrition, public health nutrition, obesity prevention, food environment, food access, healthy food retail, nutrition policy, food security
Distinguished Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Chronic diseases, environment & exposures, tobacco, smoking, cessation, health care policy, global health
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Food & Nutrition, obesity intervention, eating disorders, equity, mental health, assessment
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Aging, chronic diseases, equity, cardiovascular disease, sleep, pharamcoepidemiology, dementia
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Environment & exposures, equity, food & nutrition, methods, bias analysis, bayesian methods, causal inference
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Food & nutrition, injuries, methods, alcohol, physical activity, substance use, social epidemiology, policy, sport, prevention, motor vehicle safety
Professor and Division Head
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Food & nutrition, mental health, mother & children, adolescent health, nutrition, obesity, eating disorders, body image
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Chronic diseases, food & nutrition, genetics, exercise, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, physical activity, epidemiology
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Obesity prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, food & nutrition, chronic diseases, intervention design
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Food & nutrition, mother & children, women's health, maternal and child health nutrition, gestational diabetes, maternal weight gain, pre-pregnancy obesity
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Aging, nutrition epidemiology, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, diet assessment, diet patterns, nutrition in older adults, dietary intake and health, fatty acids & CVD.
Assistant Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
infectious disease epidemiology, foodborne infections, enteric infections, zoonoses, molecular epidemiology
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Chronic diseases, food & nutrition, infectious disease, methods, causal inference, machine learning, variable selection, risk prediction, HIV/AIDS