Melissa Melough
Melissa Melough, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor
Office Location:
317 Tower at STAR
Dr. Melough is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Nutrition Sciences, specializing in nutritional epidemiology. She studies nutritional and environmental factors influencing human health and aims to identify dietary approaches to promote health or mitigate the harmful effects of environmental chemicals. Her research focuses on populations with greatest vulnerability to nutritional inadequacies or harmful chemical exposures such as those in key developmental life stages and historically disadvantaged communities. Dr. Melough鈥檚 current research projects examine the roles of endocrine disruptors in the development of obesity, the influences of maternal nutrition on childhood outcomes, and novel dietary approaches to reduce chemical exposures or their associated health consequences.
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Education and Training:听
Postdoctoral Researcher, Seattle Children鈥檚 Research Institute, 2019-2022
PhD, Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Connecticut, 2019
Dietetic Intern, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 2012
BS, Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, 2011
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Courses
- HBNS 632: Nutrition Epidemiology
- HBNS 609: Survey Research Methods
- HBNS 222: Introduction to Epidemiology
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Baker BH, Melough MM, Paquette AG, Barrett ES, Day DB, Kannan K, Nguyen RH, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Carroll KN, Swan SH, Zhao Q, Sathyanarayana S. Environ Int. 2024 Jan;183:108427.
Melough MM, Maffini MV, Otten JJ, Sathyanarayana S.听Environ Res.听2022 Aug;211:113049.听
Melough MM, Murphy LE, Graff JC, Derefinko KJ, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Enquobahrie DA, Loftus CT, Kocak M, Sathyanarayana S, Tylavsky FA.听J Nutr.听2021 Jan 4;151(1):132-139.听
Melough MM, Sakaki J, Liao LM, Sinha R, Cho E, Chun OK.听Nutr Cancer.听2021;73(9):1613-1620.听
Sakaki JR, Melough MM, Provatas AA, Perkins C, Chun OK.听Toxicol Rep.听2020;7:1020-1024.听