Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH University of Pennsylvania, USA

Shiriki Kumanyika is Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the Founding Director of Penn's interdisciplinary, multi-school Master of Public Health program and where she currently serves as the Senior Advisor to the Center for Public Health Initiatives. Her research focuses on identifying effective strategies to reduce nutrition-related chronic disease risks. Dr. Kumanyika has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several multi-center and single-center randomized clinical trials or observational studies related to salt intake, other aspects of diet, or obesity. Many of her studies have evaluated interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity in African American children or adults in clinical or community-based settings. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine.