Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Brigham and Women's Hospital
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I completed my PhD in Epidemiology at Tulane University where my dissertation research examined the relationship between sleep and diet in a low-income, rural southeaster US cohort. My research interests are to study the upstream influences, including social and structural determinants, lifestyle behaviors, and genetic factors, of both sleep and circadian health, and diet, major contributors to cardiometabolic disease (CMD). Better knowledge of upstream influences on these behaviors and their interelationship could improve interventions to reduce CMD risk and disparities. I am particularly interested in studying the relationship between sleep and circadian factors with diet, in both directions, and understanding if these associations are causal and if they mediate each other’s associations with disease outcomes. My career goal is to become an independent investigator in sleep, circadian, nutrition and chrononutrition epidemiology to help alleviate the burden of CMD health inequities in the United States.