CPHAR Fellows Biographical Information

Eva Katz, MPH, RD

Eva Katz, PhD, MPH, RD, earned her doctorate in Nutrition Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2010. She received her B.S. in Nutritional Science at Rutgers University and her M.P.H. at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Registered Dietitian.

Dr. Katz is currently a post-doctoral fellow in patient reported outcomes at Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Katz’s research at UNC focused on the impact of age and adiposity on chronic disease risk in multi-ethnic populations. For her dissertation research she examined the association of general and regional measures of adiposity with components of the metabolic syndrome over different stages of adulthood. Determining the extent to which age, ethnicity and markers of genetic and environmental factors modify these relationships were of particular importance in her analyses.

Dr. Katz was awarded a full scholarship to attend the National Institute on Aging sponsored Body Weight, Adiposity, Energetics and Longevity Conference, November, 2007.

Her faculty advisory committee for the training program included Barry Popkin, PhD (lead mentor) and Victor Marshall, PhD. Dr. Katz completed the CPHAR program in September 2010.

Selected PUBLICATIONS

Katz EG, Stevens J, Truesdale KP, Cai J, North KE.  Interactions between obesity, parental history of hypertension and age on prevalent hypertension the People’s Republic of China Study. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. 2011.

Katz EG, Stevens J, Truesdale KP, Cai J, Adair L, North KE.  Hip Circumference and Incident Metabolic Risk Factors in Chinese Men and Women: The People's Republic of China Study. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders. 2010 Nov 20.

Stevens J, Katz EG, Huxley R.  Associations between gender, age and waist circumference (review).  European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2010, 64(1):6–15.

Stevens J, Truesdale KP, Katz EG, Cai J.  Impact of body mass index on incident hypertension and diabetes in Chinese Asians, American Whites and American Blacks: The PRC and ARIC studies.  American Journal of Epidemiology. 2008, 167(11):1365-74.