[3] Dr. Gordon-Larsen's NIH-funded research portfolio focuses on individual-, household-, and community-level susceptibility to obesity[4] and its cardiometabolic consequences, and her work ranges from molecular and genetic[5] to environmental and societal-level factors.
She completed postdoctoral training in nutritional epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[7] Much of her research focuses on issues related to ethnicity, disparities and development of obesity over the lifecycle, with attention to pathways linking environment and behavior to cardiometabolic risk.
[12] In November 2018, Gordon-Larsen was appointed the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health's Associate Dean for Research as she stepped down as chair of the NIH Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes study section.
[13] As the Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition, Gordon-Larsen led the Obesity Creativity Hub (Heterogeneity in Obesity Creativity Hub) "to bring researchers together to solve major societal problems.