Dr. Cara Frankenfeld is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Program Director for the Master of Public Health Program at the University of Puget Sound, where she also teaches epidemiology and biostatistics, and conducts research in the fields of trans-omic epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, and applications of biostatistics to understanding complex spatial and structural determinants of health. She has a long-standing research program evaluating health in relation to gut microbial metabotypes of dietary phytoestrogen metabolism. Read more
She is skilled at aligning funding and dissemination outlets with research, and she has received funding from diverse sources to support her work, including federal government and private industry. She mentors individuals on the publication process and is the Editor-in-Chief for Dialogues in Health, an Associate Editor for Annals of Epidemiology, and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Nutrition. Prior to her current position, she was a faculty member at George Mason University for 11.5 years, where she conducted research, taught epidemiology and biostatistics courses, and developed a university-wide, sustainable 3-semester mentoring program for new tenure-track faculty and served as the chair of the departmental promotion, tenure, and renewal committee. In addition to academic experiences, she regularly provides consulting services to a variety of agencies. She utilizes these experiences to build mentoring systems and experiences for early career researchers, currently serving on the Mentoring Committee for the American College of Epidemiology and previously serving as a Team Lead in the inaugural SER Mentoring Program.
