February 2020
Early-Life Predictors of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders January 22, 2020 –The clinical teams at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute and in South Africa led by principal investigator Philip A. May, PhD have published findings of a decade-long effort to drive down...NGx Speakers
NGx Home Speakers Agenda Lodging Hosts UNC NRI NORC Sponsors Coddle Creek Capital NC Biotech Truly Good Foods Speakers Keynote: Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa, Ph.D., FTOS, FAHA Horn Distinguished Professor, Nutritional Sciences and AVP for Research and Director, Obesity...Environment and Nutrition
Make a Gift Now Environment and Nutrition Beginning at conception, environmental factors in health can accumulate over a lifetime and be from sources as broad as geographic location and economic status to specific external sources including physical activity,...Mentoring
Make a Gift Now Mentoring Part of the prestigious University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Nutrition Research Institute is home to accomplished research scientists with expertise in a range of fields, including nutrition, genetics, biochemistry, neuroscience,...Faculty – Susan M. Smith, PhD
Susan M. Smith, PhDDickson Foundation – Harris Teeter Distinguished Professor of Nutrition Biography Team Publications News susan_smith@unc.edu704-250-5065 Dr. Smith’s laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms by which dietary components affect prenatal...Faculty – Sandra M. Mooney, PhD
Sandra M. Mooney, PhD Associate Professor of Nutrition Biography Team Publications News sandra_mooney@unc.edu704-250-5022View CV Sandra Mooney, PhD joined the UNC Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute in August 2018 as an Associate Professor of Nutrition. Her...
January Faculty Focus: Philip May, PhD
January 11, 2019 – “I’ve been called ‘tenacious’,” says Philip A. May, PhD, with a hint of humor. It’s an understatement for the man who relentlessly pursues data that shed light on important public health issues across the United States and around the globe. May, professor of nutrition at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) and in the Department of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been a demographer and epidemiologist for the better part of 50 years. He calls his style of research “shoe-leather” epidemiology, meaning that he gathers information for studies by getting out in the field and immersing himself in communities to really know the people in his studies. For nearly 30 of those years, May’s focus has been on learning about the often-dire effects and alarmingly high prevalence of fetal alcohol exposure.