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Saurabh Mehta is currently the Janet Gordon Lankton Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He holds physician training expertise in nutrition, epidemiology, infectious disease, and diagnostics. Mehta is the Founding Director of the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health, and he serves as the co-director of the NIH-funded Center for Point Care Diagnostics in Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer, part of the POCTRN network. His research focuses on the intersection of nutrition and disease, emphasizing field-friendly assessment strategies to utilize nutrition as a modifiable risk factor for improving health outcomes, especially in the contexts of pregnancy and early childhood. Through active surveillance programs, innovative point-of-care diagnostics, and randomized controlled trials conducted in India, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, Mehta aims to prevent poor health outcomes in vulnerable populations, particularly mothers and children facing infectious diseases. He has earned numerous distinguished awards for his work, including the NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge Prize for innovative global health diagnostics and the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities.
Cornell University • Ithaca, NY
Serves as a member of the executive leadership team; directs and coordinates significant research initiatives.
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