Alison
Gustafson was a Population Health Service Fellow at the Dane County Health
Department from 2004 through 2006. She received her MPH from Boston University
and has also earned a PhD in Nutrition and Epidemiology from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Alison is currently an Assistant Professor at
the University of Kentucky, where she conducts research on the food environment
as a determinant of diet and weight among rural and geographically isolated
communities. She is the Primary Investigator on one United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) grant and a Co-Investigator on a National Institutes of
Health (NIH) grant.
Alison’s
experience as a Fellow helped her decide that she wanted to pursue a PhD with a
strong research focus. Her words of wisdom to current and prospective
Fellows are this: “Take advantage of all opportunities, no matter how small.”
Alison
has a 4-year-old daughter (pictured below) and is pregnant with her second
child.
