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Karen Switkowski, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Senior Research Scientist
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute/Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dr. Switkowski is a nutritional epidemiologist with training in public health, nutritional biochemistry, and epidemiology. She is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and a Principal Associate at Harvard Medical School. She was the Project Manager of Project Viva, an ongoing longitudinal study following a cohort of mother-child pairs from pregnancy through young adulthood, for nearly five years amd is now a co-investigator. In addition to her scientific work, she coordinated Project Viva’s involvement in the NIH ECHO Program during the UG3 phase and is currently the Project Director for Project Viva’s resource infrastructure grant. Her research is focused on prenatal and childhood nutrition, and she is particularly interested in the complementary feeding period and the impact of early feeding behaviors and nutritional exposures on later diet quality and health outcomes, including food allergies. She also writes a newsletter, Just One Bite (https://justonebite.substack.com/), which is focused on making the scientific evidence supporting early nutrition and child feeding practices accessible to parents and other caregivers.

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