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Nicole Dowling, PhD

Epidemiologist, Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC

Dr. Dowling joined the Office of Public Health Genomics in 2006, as the team leader of the Genomics and Population Health Research Team. She leads the activities of the CDC/NCI NHANES III Collaborative Genomics Project working group to analyze data derived from DNA samples collected during the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). She directs ongoing epidemiologic analyses to determine the prevalence of nearly 100 gene variants of public health interest in the U.S. population and to elucidate associations between these variants and multiple health outcomes. Dr. Dowling was previously with the Division of Hereditary Blood Disorders (DHBD) in the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at CDC for six years. While at DHBD, Dr. Dowling was the team leader for the Epidemiology and Surveillance Team and the lead epidemiologist for research programs of clotting disorders (thrombosis) and inherited bleeding disorders in women. Dr. Dowling received an AB in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1988, and PhD in Epidemiology from Emory University in 2001.

She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Nicole’s other interests include the integration of genomics into public health investigations and the role of genetic factors in the etiology of chronic disease outcomes.

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