EXNS Research
Our primary areas of expertise and faculty working in each of these areas are listed below.
The Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition Security is also housed
within the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences.
Click on the faculty listed to learn more!
Food Systems, Food Safety, Nutrition Security, & Policy
Faculty focusing on food systems, food safety, nutrition security, and policy investigate the structural, social, political, and environmental factors affecting access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food.
Allison Sylvetsky
Sameera Talegawkar
Rob van Dam
Physical Activity & Nutrition Epidemiology
Faculty focusing on epidemiology work to describe population trends in physical activity and nutrition behaviors across the life course and examine the independent and combine roles of nutrition and physical activity in chronic disease etiology, and obesity.
Mary Barron
Loretta DiPietro
Karina Lora
Kim Robien
Emily Smith
Allison Sylvetsky
Sameera Talegawkar
Rob van Dam
Physical Activity & Nutrition Behavior Change
Faculty focusing on physical activity and dietary behaviors investigate approaches to promote healthy physical activity and dietary behavior changes through evidence-based interventions targeting the individual and community levels.
Loretta DiPietro
Gabby Headrick
Karina Lora
Allison Sylvetsky
Rob van Dam
Amanda Visek
Sport Participation & Performance
Faculty focusing on sport participation and performance use multifactorial approaches to optimize youth development, health, human performance, and longevity.
Mary Barron
Kyle Levers
Todd Miller
Carmen Ortega-Santos
Amanda Visek
Maternal, Infant, & Young Child Nutrition
Faculty focusing on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition work to investigate the development origins of health and disease, identify diet-related risk factors for adverse perinatal and birth outcomes, and examine impacts of dietary behaviors and micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy and postpartum on maternal, infant, and young child health.
Emily Smith
Allison Sylvetsky
Metabolism & Multiomics
Faculty focusing on metabolism and multomics investigate impacts of physical activity and nutrition on physiologic mechanisms underlying metabolic dysregulation, obesity and chronic disease etiology, at both systems- and cellular-levels.
Todd Miller
Carmen Ortega-Santos
Emily Smith
Allison Sylvetsky
Sameera Talegawkar
Rob van Dam
Kim Robien
Global Food, Nutrition & Physical Activity
Faculty focusing on food safety, nutrition, and physical activity work to generate, analyze, and translate data to improve health globally.
Barb Kowalcyk
Emily Smith
Allison Sylvetsky
Sameera Talegawkar
Rob van Dam
Amanda Visek