Prior to coming to Furman, she held a faculty position in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a nutritional epidemiologist with a focus on childhood obesity. Her research examines the social and environmental determinants of obesity and she strives to develop community-based intervention strategies aimed at reducing these determinants. She serves as the lead investigator for community-based obesity prevention efforts in early childcare settings. Meghan is Teagan’s aunt and favorite funny face making partner. Meghan earned her B.A. in multicultural health advocacy from Western Washington University, her M.S. in food policy and M.P.H. in epidemiology and biostatistics from Tufts and her Ph.D. in nutritional epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.