Upcoming Events

The 13th Annual Global Health Day Symposium: Nutrition and Global Health Impacts

Fri., April 19 | 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Farber G26

Keynote speaker

Photo of Marian Neuhouser.

Advancing human health through nutrition: a core foundation for health promotion and disease prevention

Marian L Neuhouser, PhD, RD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Marian L Neuhouser, PhD, RD, is a Professor and Program Head in the Cancer Prevention Program, Division of Public Health Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. She is also Core Faculty in Nutritional Sciences and Affiliate Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington. Dr. Neuhouser completed her undergraduate degree in Community Nutrition at the University of California, Davis. She obtained her PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of WA followed by postdoctoral training at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center where she subsequently became faculty and has spent the past 28 years engaged in cancer-related nutrition research.

Dr. Neuhouser has been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator of numerous NIH and USDA-funded grants focused on: (1) dietary modification interventions for reduction of risk of cancer or progression of existing disease; (2) short term intervention trials to delineate the role of foods, food components and dietary patterns on human metabolism and physiology, and for dietary biomarker discovery; and (3) methodologic research to improve dietary assessment used in cancer prevention research. Research designs range from large observational cohorts to controlled feeding trials. She has authored over 450 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the biomedical literature.

Dr. Neuhouser is member and chair of the NIH’s Lifestyle and Health Behaviors (LHB) Scientific Review Group and is a member of the Food & Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Neuhouser was a member of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, was President of the American Society for Nutrition 2016-2017, was elected as a fellow of the American Society for Nutrition in 2023, and is Deputy Editor of The Journal of Nutrition.

Full event agenda forthcoming

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