Andrea J Glenn

Andrea J. Glenn, MSc, RD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University and a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She earned her BSc in Nutrition from St. Francis Xavier University, completed her dietetic training at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), and received her MSc and PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto. She then pursued postdoctoral training in Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Glenn’s research focuses on dietary patterns, plant-based protein, and their roles in cardiometabolic disease prevention and management. She is particularly interested in advancing dietary assessment methods and identifying novel biomarkers of dietary intake and nutritional status through metabolomics. She is also interested in studying the impact of Food is Medicine (FIM) initiatives on health outcomes. In addition to her research, Dr. Glenn has experience coordinating clinical trials, developing patient-centered knowledge translation tools, and teaching courses in research methods, nutritional epidemiology, clinical nutrition, and culinary medicine.