Filippa Juul, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Dr. Juul holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the NYU School of Global Public Health,
a MSc in Public Health Nutrition from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden)
and a BA in Nutrition and Dietetics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain).
As an awardee of the NYU Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, she completed her postdoctoral
training at the Department of Public Health Policy and Management at the NYU School
of Global Public Health. Dr. Juul’s research is motivated by a deep commitment to
improve cardiometabolic health outcomes at the population level, with a specific focus
on reducing health disparities. As a nutritional epidemiologist, she combines her
expertise in epidemiological methods and nutrition to examine the role of diet in
the etiology and prevention of cardiometabolic outcomes. Dr. Juul’s research to date
has primarily examined the association between ultra-processed foods and diet quality,
obesity and cardiovascular disease, utilizing large US population studies. She is
also conducting research to understand the biological mechanisms underpinning the
associations between ultra-processed foods and cardiometabolic health. Additionally,
Dr. Juul has expertise in dissemination and implementation science and is conducting
policy research with the aim of identifying and disseminating effective public health
measures for chronic disease prevention.