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Dr. Amy R. Nichols is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis, affiliated with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She holds dual roles as an Assistant Nutritionist in the AES division. Her work bridges maternal and child nutrition with reproductive epidemiology and cardiometabolic health. Dr. Nichols earned her BA in English and Anthropology from the University of Illinois, her MS in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Colorado State University, and her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) certified by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Her research focuses on two primary areas: (1) preconception to 1000-day nutrition and its lifelong health impacts, emphasizing modifiable determinants, and (2) reproductive risk factors (infertility, pregnancy loss) and their associations with midlife cardiometabolic health. She employs longitudinal data and interdisciplinary approaches to investigate sex-based biological variables and life course health trajectories.
Dr. Nichols’ recent work highlights prenatal dietary patterns, gestational weight management, and the long-term metabolic consequences of reproductive health events. Her studies often involve large cohorts like Project Viva, examining multigenerational health linkages and environmental toxin exposures. Her findings contribute to public health strategies targeting obesity prevention, maternal-fetal health optimization, and midlife cardiovascular risk reduction.
Her research outputs include over 20 peer-reviewed articles since 2020, with 15 of her most recent publications focusing on maternal weight trajectories, reproductive health outcomes, and the interplay between diet, stress biomarkers, and adiposity across lifecourse stages. Dr. Nichols actively collaborates with maternal-child health researchers, epidemiologists, and clinical nutrition teams to advance translational nutrition science.
