UT Public Health Coalition Monthly Seminar Series
Sep
24
2026
Sep
24
2026
Description
Our kick-off seminar will take place on Sept. 24 at 12pm (noon) and will feature Dr. Marissa Burgermaster, a behavioral nutrition scientist, jointly appointed to the School of Health & Human Sciences’ Dept. of Nutritional Science and Dell Medical School’s Dept. of Population Health.
Dr. Burgermaster’s research applies biomedical informatics methods to improve nutrition and community health, leveraging patient-generated data to personalize nutrition interventions aimed at preventing and managing chronic disease. Her work especially focuses on groups for whom new technologies are not typically developed. You may have seen Dr. Burgermaster referenced in CNN’s recent coverage of her research findings that four out of five toddler foods are ultra-processed, while nearly half of them fail to meet nutrition standards.