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Professor of Epidemiology
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Shiriki Kumanyika is a professor of epidemiology at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is also associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention in the School of Medicine.
Her research efforts have focused on studying dietary change and weight management as strategies for control of chronic diseases. She has a special interest in culturally-adapted lifestyle change programs for African Americans and has developed and tested programs in clinical and community settings.
In addition to the SHARE study, Dr. Kumanyika is currently involved in a study to prevent weight gain and increase physical activity in African American women, in collaboration with the Black Women's Health Imperative (a Washington, D.C. based organization formerly known as the National Black Women's Health Project). She is also a co-researcher on a study to prevent excess weight gain in pre-adolescent African American girls recruited from the Memphis community, in collaboration with the University of Memphis
Dr. Kumanyika directs a federally funded Center of Excellence on Inner City Health (EXPORT) that includes various academic and community outreach, training, and educational activities in partnership with Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. She holds her Ph.D. in the field of human nutrition.