Lara Dugas, PhD, MPH, FTOS
Lara Dugas, PhD, MPH, FTOS, AXA Chair in Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Epidemiology, University of Cape Town, and Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago
Lara Dugas, PhD, MPH, FTOS is the AXA Chair in Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Epidemiology, hosted at the University of Cape Town (UCT, 2021-2026), and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago (LUC). She completed her PhD and post-doctoral training at UCT in the Health through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sport Research Centre, focusing on the measurement of diet, and physical activity. In 2007, she joined LUC and managed a large international study exploring the effects of diet and physical activity in 5 African-origin populations from Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica, Seychelles and the US. In 2014 she expanded this work to explore the gut microbiota and intermediary metabolites, and chronic disease risk focusing on obesity and diabetes. In 2019 she broadened this work to include the role of the sleep behaviour, circadian rhythm and cardiometabolic risk. In 2021 she was awarded the AXA Chair in Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, hosted in the Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UCT. Initially, her programme focused on the intersection of NCDs, including obesity, and type 2 diabetes, in populations with a high HIV burden, but has since expanded this to include the impact of a heating climate and NCD risk in vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, leveraging her work in South Africa and Ghana.
Lara Dugas, PhD, MPH, FTOS, AXA Chair in Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Epidemiology, University of Cape Town, and Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago
Lara Dugas, PhD, MPH, FTOS is the AXA Chair in Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Epidemiology, hosted at the University of Cape Town (UCT, 2021-2026), and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago (LUC). She completed her PhD and post-doctoral training at UCT in the Health through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sport Research Centre, focusing on the measurement of diet, and physical activity. In 2007, she joined LUC and managed a large international study exploring the effects of diet and physical activity in 5 African-origin populations from Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica, Seychelles and the US. In 2014 she expanded this work to explore the gut microbiota and intermediary metabolites, and chronic disease risk focusing on obesity and diabetes. In 2019 she broadened this work to include the role of the sleep behaviour, circadian rhythm and cardiometabolic risk. In 2021 she was awarded the AXA Chair in Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, hosted in the Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UCT. Initially, her programme focused on the intersection of NCDs, including obesity, and type 2 diabetes, in populations with a high HIV burden, but has since expanded this to include the impact of a heating climate and NCD risk in vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, leveraging her work in South Africa and Ghana.