Autumn Grace Hullings, PhD, MPH

Autumn G. Hullings graduated with her PhD in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2024 and currently works as a post-graduate research analyst.

 

Current work: Her research seeks to understand sex differences in diet- and lipid-associated metabolism. Her work is funded by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) through Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen's grant: Leveraging multi-omics approaches to examine metabolic challenges of obesity in relation to cardiovascular diseases. Her published dissertation can be found here.

 

Background: Prior to starting her doctoral degree, Dr. Hullings was an Epidemiological Research Analyst at the National Cancer Institute where she studied nutrition, metabolomics and the human microbiome in relation to gastrointestinal cancers. Dr. Hullings has a Masters in Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Health Sciences from Gettysburg College. Her research interests include nutritional epidemiology, cardiometabolic disease, and multi-omics.