Journal of Nutrition and Health Sciences

Dr. Kranz earned her PhD in Nutrition Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002. She was Assistant Professor in Nutrition Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University, Associate Professor at East Carolina University, and is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at Purdue University.

Dr. Kranz is a nutrition epidemiologist with established expertise in child nutrition, particularly in the understudied group of preschoolers (2-5 year olds). Her work on the association between overall diet quality and the risk for childhood obesity as well as her study of the factors influencing dietary fiber intake generated great interest and resulted in many collaborations with international researchers in the field of pediatric and public health nutrition. Dr. Kranz’s research is translational, in that it ranges from prospective random controlled community- or laboratory-based clinical diet interventions studies to the analysis of nationally representative data sets. All of her research is conducted in pursuit of the goal of improving overall diet quality and to reduce the risk for chronic diseases, such as obesity and diabetes.