Deirdre Tobias, Symposium Co-Chair
Dr. Deirdre Tobias is an assistant professor and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She received her doctorate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in epidemiology and nutrition. Her research focuses on identifying lifestyle risk factors and integrating metabolomics for prevention of obesity-related chronic diseases. Dr. Tobias is PI of a NIH-funded randomized beverage trial and other research to improve causal inference from nutrition science to inform public health guidelines. She serves as the Academic Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Dalia Stern, Symposium Co-Chair
Dr. Dalia Stern is an assistant professor at the Population Health Research Center at the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico. She received her PhD in nutrition epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Stern coordinates the diabetes and cardiovascular disease research area of The Mexican Teacher’s Cohort, the largest prospective study in Latin America. Her research focuses on understanding modifiable risk factors for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer among Hispanics. Dr. Stern has a special interest in the application of contemporary epidemiological methods to the field of nutrition epidemiology.
Yu-Han Chiu
Yu-Han Chiu is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine. She received an MD from the National Taiwan University and a Sc.D. Epidemiology from Harvard and completed her postdoc at the CAUSALab at Harvard. Her research focuses on developing and applying novel causal inference methods to inform decisions for pregnancy and cardiovascular health. These research activities include emulating target trials to study treatment safety and dietary strategies using large longitudinal data; and methods for extending inference from randomized trials to a target population of interest.
Daniel Ibsen
Daniel Ibsen is postdoctoral fellow at the Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus; Department of Public Health at Aarhus University; and the Department of Nutrition, Sports and Exercise, University of Copenhagen. He is a nutritional epidemiologist using causal inference methods and objective dietary assessment with a mission to improve the methods used in nutrition research. His research topics include plant-based diets, obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Conor Macdonald
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Natalia Ortega
Natalia Ortega is a PhD student in Nutritional Epidemiology at the Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Switzerland. Previously, she got her MPharm and MSc in Global Health from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She coordinated the Exposome Powered Tools for Healthy Living in Urban Settings (EXPANSE project) at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). She has a strong interest in applying novel causal inference methods in nutrition research. Her PhD focuses on the effect of dairy intake, inflammation and cognitive function in older adults.
Octavio Pano
Yi Zhao
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