Dr. Erikka Loftfield earned a M.P.H. and Ph.D. in chronic disease epidemiology, both from Yale University. She completed her postdoctoral training in the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) at the National Cancer Institute and was selected as an Earl Stadtman tenure-track investigator in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch in DCEG and an NIH Distinguished Scholar in 2020. Dr. Loftfield’s research focuses on the interplay between diet and metabolism and their potential effects on cancer risk. Her integrative research program leverages developing technologies to improve dietary assessment and gain insights into diet-cancer associations.