Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health and School of Medicine, and Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Honorary Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa
Human biologist/nutrition epidemiologist interested in factors that influence the health and nutrition of women, infants, and children, with a focus on the developmental origins of health and disease
More than 30 years of experience in cohort studies of child growth, primarily in low- and middle-income countries
Research focus on determinants of growth faltering and rapid growth, and the adult cardiometabolic and developmental outcomes related to growth history
Co-Principal Investigator of the US Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program Coordinating Center
Recipient of the 2014 American Nutrition Society Kellogg International Nutrition Research Award
Inducted into the American Society for Nutrition Society of Fellows, and Executive Committee member of the US DOHaD Society
