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Dr. Susan T. Mayne has replaced Michael M. Landa as center director for the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Dr. Mayne is an internationally recognized public health leader and scientist, who is also known as an outstanding administrator and coalition builder. With rigorous training in nutrition, toxicology and epidemiology, she understands the fundamental relationship between science and FDA’s public health mission.
Currently, the C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and chair, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, as well as associate director of Yale Cancer Center, Dr. Mayne has forged successful collaborations with NIH and USDA; worked with state legislators to pass public health bills; and mentored young public health professionals, who now occupy important positions at the CDC and elsewhere. She has accomplished this while also conducting extensive research into the complex role of food, nutrition and obesity, and other health behaviors, as determinants of chronic disease risk. She is author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications.
Dr. Mayne is an internationally recognized public health leader and scientist, who is also known as an outstanding administrator and coalition builder. With rigorous training in nutrition, toxicology and epidemiology, she understands the fundamental relationship between science and FDA’s public health mission.
Currently, the C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and chair, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, as well as associate director of Yale Cancer Center, Dr. Mayne has forged successful collaborations with NIH and USDA; worked with state legislators to pass public health bills; and mentored young public health professionals, who now occupy important positions at the CDC and elsewhere. She has accomplished this while also conducting extensive research into the complex role of food, nutrition and obesity, and other health behaviors, as determinants of chronic disease risk. She is author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications.
