- Senior Investigator, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS PROGRAM
Dr. Ziegler is currently a senior investigator in the Office of the Director of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program of the National Cancer Institute. Her research on diet, nutrition, and cancer has emphasized both etiology and public health implications, and has integrated biochemical and molecular techniques. Dr. Ziegler received a B.A. in chemistry and English from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, and a M.P.H. in epidemiology and public policy from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has developed and taught courses on public health nutrition, international nutrition, and global food resources at Yale, Harvard, and Tufts Universities. Dr. Ziegler helped establish the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Interest Section of the American Society of Nutritional Sciences and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and the Nutrition Action Healthletter. In 1996, she was awarded the NIH Merit Award for her research on the role of vegetables, fruits, and micronutrients in the etiology of cancer.
Academic Articles512
- (2019). Circulating markers of cellular immune activation in prediagnostic blood sample and lung cancer risk in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 146(9), 2394-2405.
- (2019). A Collaborative Analysis of Individual Participant Data from 19 Prospective Studies Assesses Circulating Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer Risk. CANCER RESEARCH. 79(1), 274-285.
- (2019). Circulating Vitamin D and Colorectal Cancer Risk: An International Pooling Project of 17 Cohorts. JNCI-Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 111(2), 158-169.
- (2019). Design and analysis considerations for combining data from multiple biomarker studies. STATISTICS IN MEDICINE. 38(8), 1303-1320.
- (2019). Vitamin B6 catabolism and lung cancer risk: results from the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3). ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY. 30(3), 478-485.