Dr. Barry Popkin to establish Professorships

Barry Popkin is currently in the process of establishing several professorships for the Department. The first, to be known as the “Barry Popkin Distinguished Professorship in Public Health Nutrition #1,” will endow a professorship to be held by an assistant professor (known as the Barry Popkin Distinguished Fellow in Public Health Nutrition) or an associate professor (known as the Barry Popkin Distinguished Scholar in Public Health Nutrition) in Barry’s area of expertise: the epidemiological research on determinants, consequences, and solutions to global dietary, activity and nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases, especially obesity. Ideally the first candidate will have economics training as well. It is Barry’s intent that the junior faculty who receives this professorship carry it throughout their career in the Department, including potential rise to full Professor status. The first fellow will be hired in the Research Track as an Assistant Professor, but in the future may support a faculty member in the tenure track. The endowment is set up to support base salary for either a research track or a tenure track faculty member.