Josiemer Mattei
Assistant Professor of Nutrition
Department of Nutrition
655 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Research interests
- Diet quality and risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and related cardiometabolic outcomes
- Dietary patterns and ethnic-specific foods associated with type 2 diabetes and its risk factors, and how these shape racial/ethnic health disparities
- The global nutrition transition; establishing dietary interventions to improve diet quality and prevent diabetes in Latin America
- Effect of variants in genes on glucose and lipid metabolism pathways, on changes in weight and glucose/insulin markers in response to diet interventions; gene-diet interactions and nutrigenomics
- Promoting nutrition/genetic epidemiological studies among Latinos in the US and Latin America, and translating results into community and public health programs
Education
- PhD; Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University
- MS; Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism-Specialization in Genetics, Tufts University
- MPH; Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Tufts University
- BS; Industrial Microbiology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus