Media contact: Hannah Echols, echolsh@uab.edu
Suzanne Judd, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics
Areas of expertise:
- Cardiovascular disease and diet
- Diabetes and diet
- Dietary needs of athletes
- Reducing health disparities in chronic disease
- Diet and racial disparities in the risk of hypertension, kidney disease and stroke
Judd is a nutritional epidemiologist who specializes in reducing health disparities in chronic disease. Her research focuses on the role diet plays in racial disparities in the risk of hypertension, kidney disease, and stroke. She is able to talk about why different racial populations have different health outcomes based on their diets and other factors.
She is the nutrition team leader for the REGARDS study, a federally-funded study that examines the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke.
Media coverage:
- Southern diet sends stroke risk soaring: Study, ABC News
- 5 dietary patterns most Americans fit into, CBS News
- Trump admin has 'sidelined' the CDC's efforts to control coronavirus, Yahoo! Finance
- REGARDS: Dietary patterns based on demographics identified in US adults, Healio
- Mixed messages on lockdown baffle citizens, Washington Examiner
- Epidemiologist says a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is 'is guaranteed' in the U.S., Yahoo! Finance
- 14 Coronavirus Mistakes You’ll Probably Make This Summer, Reader's Digest
- U.S. sees most new COVID-19 cases in 5 weeks, MSN