Miriam E. Nelson, PhD
Director
Miriam Nelson, PhD, author of the international best-sellers Strong Women Stay Young, Strong Women Stay Slim, Strong Women, Strong Bones, Strong Women Eat Well, and Strong Women and Men Beat Arthritis, is Director of the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition and Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. She holds a PhD in nutrition from Tufts University. Dr. Nelson is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, an honor reserved for those who have demonstrated superior leadership and research in the field of exercise. More about Miriam Nelson
Christina D. Economos, PhD
Associate Director
Dr. Economos is an Assistant Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a Research Scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. Dr. Economos received a Bachelor of Science from Boston University, a Master of Science in Applied Physiology and Nutrition from Columbia University and a doctorate in Nutrition Science from Tufts University. Her research efforts focus on the interaction among exercise, diet, body composition, and bone health through longitudinal studies and lifestyle interventions to prevent osteoporosis and obesity, starting early in life. Her work emphasizes on techniques that accurately measure and interventions that optimally develop and preserve skeletal muscle and bone mass throughout the lifespan. More about Christina Economos
Raymond Hyatt, PhD
Dr. Raymond R. Hyatt is a medical sociologist who studies the effects of the social construction of families and communities on health outcomes. His work focuses on the role that social capital, family units, and community organizations play in the production of health. Dr. Hyatt is an Assistant Professor in the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. His current research examines the effects of community on childhood obesity. His prior research, at Abt Associates, Inc. in Cambridge, MA and Brown University, focused on the definition of social capital and its effect on both individual health behavior and community health outcomes. He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Brown University, an MS in Mathematics from MIT and a PhD in Sociology from Brown University.
Jeanne P. Goldberg, PhD, RD
Jeanne P. Goldberg, professor of nutrition, is Director of the Center on Nutrition Communication and the Graduate Program in Nutrition Communication at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She received her BS in foods and nutrition from Simmons College in Boston and completed her dietetic internship at the Frances Stern Nutrition Center at Tufts-New England Medical Center, and received her MEd. and PhD from Tufts. More about Jeanne Goldberg
Aviva Must, PhD
Dr. Must is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Her research area is the epidemiology of obesity, with a focus on long-term physical and psychosocial health consequences of childhood growth characteristics and obesity effects across the lifespan. She has conducted retrospective cohort studies in diverse populations, including historical cohorts from the 1920s and 1960s, and a matched exposure study of repatriated prisoners of war. The MIT Growth and Development Study, a 10-year prospective study of girls, examines the metabolic dietary and lifestyle factors related to incident obesity and fatness change of the adolescent period. More about Aviva Must
Rebecca Seguin, MS, CSCS
Rebecca Seguin, MS, is Project Manager for the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition (CPAN) at Tufts University in Boston. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in 1998, and she is currently a graduate student at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. More about Rebecca Seguin