Kristin Guertin

Research Area(s) of Interest:​

Chronic disease epidemiology; Nutritional epidemiology; Modifiable Lifestyle factors; Biomarkers; Cancer risk and survivorship and Type 1 diabetes

Dr. Kristin Guertin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Guertin is a chronic disease epidemiologist with expertise in the design, conduct, and analysis of epidemiologic studies. Her recent and ongoing studies focus on outcomes including ovarian cancer survival, Type 1 Diabetes, and COVID-19. ​

Dr. Guertin’s formal training is in nutrition (PhD, Cornell 2013) and epidemiology (MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale 2008). She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics where she developed expertise in self-reported diet, smoking, and metabolomics. ​

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