Andrea Glenn
Visiting Scholars and Scientists

Andrea Glenn

Visiting Scientist

Nutrition

aglenn@hsph.harvard.edu


Overview

Andrea J. Glenn, MSc, RD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. She is also a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her BSc in Nutrition at St. Francis Xavier University, RD training at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), MSc and PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, and postdoctoral training in Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Her main research interests include addressing questions of public health and clinical importance in relation to dietary patterns, plant protein, and cardiometabolic disease risk, particularly cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and healthy aging. She explores these research areas by incorporating epidemiological analyses, clinical trial data, and metabolomics

BSc, 2010, Nutrition
St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

MSc, 2012, Nutritional Sciences
University of Toronto, Canada

RD, 2013, Dietetic Internship
Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada

PhD, 2021, Nutritional Sciences
University of Toronto, Canada

PDF, 2024, Nutritional Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship2022-2024
Canadian Institute of Health Research


Bibliography

Association of glycaemic index and glycaemic load with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of mega cohorts of more than 100?000 participants.

Jenkins DJA, Willett WC, Yusuf S, Hu FB, Glenn AJ, Liu S, Mente A, Miller V, Bangdiwala SI, Gerstein HC, Sieri S, Ferrari P, Patel AV, McCullough ML, Le Marchand L, Freedman ND, Loftfield E, Sinha R, Shu XO, Touvier M, Sawada N, Tsugane S, van den Brandt PA, Shuval K, Khan TA, Paquette M, Sahye-Pudaruth S, Patel D, Siu TFY, Srichaikul K, Kendall CWC, Sievenpiper JL.

Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2024 Feb. 12(2):107-118. PMID: 38272606


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