FSHN Fall Seminar - Dr. Cynthia Ogden
November 6, 2024 4:00PM - 5:00PM
FSHN Fall 2024 Seminar Series
Dr. Cynthia Ogden, PhD, MRP
Branch Chief, NHANES
Center for Disease Control
"Nutritional epidemiology: NHANES and Public health nutrition"
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 4pm-5pm
Join in-person: S Anthony Hall, Room 1135
Join via Zoom: msu.zoom.us/j/91335396780
Meeting ID: 913 3539 6780 Passcode: FSHN_2024
Dr. Cynthia Ogden has a more than 2-decade career in the NHANES group at the CDC, and is an internationally recognized expert in nutritional and obesity epidemiology. She was a member of the team that developed the 2000 CDC pediatric growth charts that are used to define obesity in US children and led the development of the CDC Extended BMI-for-age growth charts. She has published more than 190 papers, government documents and book chapters on topics in nutrition, diet, obesity, growth, and physical activity. For 4 years, Cynthia was an associate editor for Obesity, the journal of The Obesity Society. Cynthia joined CDC as an EIS Officer after a post-doctoral year in the Nutrition Division at the New York State Department of Health. She has worked on nutrition related projects for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and currently is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, advising students and teaching courses on nutritional and obesity epidemiology. Cynthia earned her Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from Cornell University where her research focused on socio-economic contributions to malnutrition among young children in Kigali, Rwanda.
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