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Lauren E. O'Connor, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Nutrition and Health Program Lead
Texas A&M Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Evidence Center
Germantown, Maryland, United States

Lauren O’Connor is the Nutrition and Health Program Lead at the Texas A&M Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Evidence Center. She is a nutrition scientist and epidemiologist with expertise in the design and conduct of randomized controlled feeding trials, dietary assessment, national nutrition surveillance (NHANES) and US dietary databases, as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses. She has served as the Chair for the American Society for Nutrition (ASN)’s Climate/Environment, Health, Agriculture and Improved Nutrition Research Interest Group; the Awards Chair and Mentorship Program lead for ASN’s Early Career Membership Group; and a member of the FASEB Early Career Representative Engagement Task Force. She is on the Editorial Board the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition, and Dietetics, a statistical reviewer for the JAMA Network Open, and a member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. Prior to her time at the Evidence Center, she was a Principal Investigator at the USDA’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center where she also contributed to the systematic reviews for the Dietary Reference Intakes for fat and carbohydrates. She was a Cancer Prevention Research Fellow at the NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) where she served on the Data Analysis Team for the 2020-25 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and worked on advancements for NCI’s Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour (ASA24®) Dietary Assessment Tool, including development of the Respondent Nutrition Report and the Sleep Module.

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