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Dr. Lisa Staimez serves as an Assistant Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University, with affiliations to the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center and the Nutrition and Health Sciences Program. She is also a KL2 Scholar with the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance and collaborates with the Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research. Her research integrates nutritional sciences, epidemiology, laboratory studies, and epigenetics to address diabetes and cardiometabolic disease prevention globally. Dr. Staimez previously worked at the CDC managing programs like WISEWOMAN and evaluating community health in Central America.
Education:
- PhD, Emory University
- MPH, Yale University
- BS, University of Arizona
Her research interests emphasize population-level diabetes heterogeneity, life-course cardiometabolic risk, and nutrition-based interventions. Recent work explores epigenetic aging biomarkers in Guatemalan adults and β-cell dysfunction in South Asian and Asian Indian populations. She advocates for tailored diabetes prevention strategies that account for geographic and demographic differences.
Dr. Staimez’s publications highlight advancements in diabetes diagnostics (e.g., OGTT plasma glucose biomarkers), genetic risk profiling among veterans, and cost-effectiveness models for diabetes management. Her KL2 Scholar role underscores commitment to translational research, while prior CDC experience reflects expertise in public health program evaluation.
She leads multidisciplinary teams at the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center and collaborates internationally on translational studies. Efforts include validating health surveys in India and analyzing stress impacts on metabolic outcomes in intervention trials.
