Ryan Woolley, BS
Analyst, Baltimore Project
MSPH-RD Candidate, Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ryan Woolley received her bachelor of science degree in Biological Sciences from Cornell University in 2014. Over the past two years, she worked in the Neuroendocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital on clinical studies of adolescent bone health. She is currently studying human nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Ryan is interested in the social and economic determinants of obesity. She hopes to learn the skills to create and analyze effective community-based interventions for childhood obesity prevention. In addition, Ryan is interested in policy changes to address socioeconomic disparities of the food environment and food access.
Ryan currently works on the Global Obesity Prevention Center's (GOPC) B’More Healthy Communities for Kids (BHCK) project as a data collector. She is also involved in the Policy Working Group.
Representative Publications:
- Singhal V, Maffazioli GD, Ackerman KE, Lee H, Elia EF, Woolley R, Kolodny, G, Cypress, AM, Misra, M. Effect of Chronic Athletic Activity on Brown Fat in Young Women. PLoS ONE. 2016 May 31;11(5):e0156353
- Barron E, Maffazioli GD, Cano Sokoloff N, Ackerman KE, Woolley R, Misra M. A high fiber and vegetable protein diet is associated with low lumbar mineral density in young amenorrheic athletes. J Acad of Nutr Diet. 2016 Mar;116(3):481-9
- Mitchell DM, Tuck P, Ackerman KE, Cano Sokoloff N, Woolley R, Slattery M, Lee H, Bouxsein ML, Misra M. Altered trabecular bone morphology in adolescent and young adult athletes with menstrual dysfunction. Bone. 2015 Dec; 81:24-30