Aryeh D. Stein, MPH, PhD

Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Biography

Aryeh D Stein, MPH, PhD is Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr Stein obtained his B.Sc. in nutrition from the University of London (England), and his MPH and Ph.D. degrees, both in epidemiology, from Columbia University in New York City, NY.  He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers. In his research he studies critical periods of susceptibility (e.g., gestation, childhood, adulthood) to nutritional deficits and surfeits in relation to the development of adult health and human capital. He has secondary interests in the methodologies of dietary assessment and program evaluation. He is currently working with CARE and ICDDR,B in the design and implementation of a novel approach to program evaluation in Bangladesh, with the COHORTS investigative team on the analysis of data from birth cohort studies in Brazil, Guatemala, India, Philippines and South Africa, and with investigators from South Africa on the extension of the Birth to Twenty cohort to the next generation. He also serves as co-chair of the Emory University Institutional Review Board.