Weiwen Chai
Associate Professor
Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
- Address
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LEV 104D
Lincoln NE 68583-0806 - Phone
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402-472-3716 On-campus 2-3716
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wchai2@unl.edu
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As a nutritionist with extensive training in behavioral, epidemiology, and basic sciences, my goal is to understand the etiology of obesity and cancer and to contribute to strategies of chronic disease prevention.
I am interested in studying how dietary, lifestyle, behavioral, socioeconomic, and biological factors influence the development of obesity and cancer through epidemiological studies and behavioral interventions.
Areas of expertise
- clinical and behavioral intervention studies in adults and children
- nutritional epidemiology and dietary analyses within large cohorts
- survey development and validation
- assessment of nutrition intervention
- multiple publications related to obesity, cancer and ethnic differences in disease risk
- analyses examining nutritional and inflammatory biomarkers with the risk of chronic diseases
Education
- Ph.D., Human Nutrition, University of Wyoming, 2004
- NIH Postdoc Fellowship, Nutritional Epidemiology and Behavioral Cancer Prevention, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, 2009-2011
Memberships
- 2011-Present: American Society of Nutrition, Full Member
- 2009-Present: American Association for Cancer Research, Associate Member
- 2015-Present: Present: Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, Full Member