Sylvia H Ley, PhD, RD

My research focuses on developing dietary and lifestyle strategies to prevent and manage diabetes and its complications and investigating earlier life risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease over the life-course. 

I am an Assistant Professor, the Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. I have completed my doctoral study in nutritional epidemiology at University Toronto and postdoctoral training in classical epidemiologic methods at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health working with large-scale cohort studies. I currently lead a research project on cardiometabolic life-course trajectories in children and adults and am partially supported by junior faculty investigator grant from NIH.

Risk factors for type 2 diabetes. In “Diabetes In America”, 3rd Edition. Bethesda, MD, National Institutes of Health, NIH Pub No. 17-1468, 2018; p. 13.1–13.37

Epidemiology and risk factors of type 2 diabetes. In “Diabetes. Epidemiology, Genetics, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment. Endocrinology”. Springer, Cham. 2018; p. 1-26 

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