Sameera Talegawkar
Sameera Talegawkar
Ph.D.
Professor
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
Department: Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Epidemiology
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Sameera A. Talegawkar is a Professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Talegawkar is a nutritional epidemiologist by training and has expertise in nutritional assessment in diverse populations. Her research focuses on the role of diet and other lifestyle predictors on aging related outcomes, and on the role of diet on health inequities experienced by population groups.
Dr. Talegawkar’s research has been supported by National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HarvestPlus, the DC Department of Aging and Community Living and local non-profit organizations. In 2023 she was appointed by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services to serve on the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee where she chairs the Health Equity Working Group.
Aging
Chronic Disease
Dietary Patterns
Health Equity
Nutrition
Postdoctoral Fellowship. The USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
Ph.D. Nutrition, Gerald J. and Dorothy R Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
MHSc. Food Science and Nutrition, Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Post-Graduate Diploma in Dietetics. Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
BSc. Microbiology, University of Bombay, Bombay, Maharashtra, India
EXNS 2120 Assessment of Nutrition Status
PUBH 6248 Epidemiology of Aging
PUBH 6611 Nutrition Assessment
Some of Dr. Talegawkar's research projects include:
- Dietary pattern trajectories over midlife and age-related changes in physical function, frailty and disability
- Dietary patterns and hearing loss in middle and older age
- Plasma metabolite markers of dietary factors associated with age-related changes in physical function
- Dietary patterns and cardiometabolic health in population groups in the United States
- Assessment of nutritional status in diverse populations