Jennifer Poti PhD

Jennifer Poti is a Research-track Assistant Professor and nutritional epidemiologist interested in understanding the complexities of the US food supply, purchasing patterns, and dietary intake. Her background is in laboratory research, and she earned a degree from Johns Hopkins University in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Her primary research goal is to determine how more refined measures of diet can enhance our ability to identify dietary factors associated with obesity and related co-morbidities. Her research has addressed whether the consumption of ready-prepared food, including both fast food and highly processed food, is associated with dietary quality and obesity.