Ph.D. Student Profile
Haneen Bou Ghanem, BS, MS
- Doctoral Student
Education
Master’s degree in Nutrition from the Lebanese American University, Lebanon, 2022
B.S. in Nutrition from the Lebanese American University, Lebanon, 2017
B.S. in Nutrition from the Lebanese American University, Lebanon, 2017
Research Interests & Projects
- Early Life exposures and their subsequent health outcomes.
- Fetal programming and its impact on metabolic syndrome and chronic diseases.
- Biosocial and environmental factors and their impact on the children’s growth and development during sensitive developmental periods
I am mostly interested in studying the effects of early life exposures on health outcomes and the biosocial and environmental factors that impact children's growth and development during sensitive developmental periods. I am also interested in exploring the unresolved molecular mechanisms in which maternal health and environmental exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding influence the offspring's health and wellbeing, increasing their risk of obesity, and metabolic syndrome. During my PhD, I will be working on the available data for three generations from the ELEMENT cohort study under the supervision of my advisor Professor Peterson.