Diet, Inflammation, and Health

Authors

Hebert, James R. James R. Hébert, MSPH, ScD, Health Sciences Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Founding Director of the South Carolina Statewide Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the University of South Carolina, also is Founder, President and Scientific Director of Connecting Health Innovations LLC (CHI). Dr. Hébert received his master's degree in Environmental Health from the University of Washington and his doctorate in Nutritional Epidemiology from Harvard University. Among his many honors and awards, in 2017 he was named to the NIH Nutrition Research Task Force Thought Leaders Panel. One of the most well published and highly cited research scientists in the world, Dr. Hébert is well known for his research into the role of diet in health and for developing the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII®), which is revolutionizing research into chronic systemic inflammation as a cause of numerous chronic diseases ranging from diabetes to depression, cardiovascular disease, and many cancers. Shivappa, Nitin Nitin Shivappa, MBBS, PhD was trained as a physician in India and received his doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of South Carolina, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and as a senior scientist at Connecting Health Innovations LLC. Since joining Dr. Hébert for his doctoral work in 2010, Dr. Shivappa has devoted his professional life to the study of diet, inflammation and health outcomes ranging from blood markers of inflammation to inflammation-related chronic disease outcomes such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and mental health outcomes. Dr. Shivappa was instrumental in developing the DII® and in establishing more than 100 research collaborations in more than 45 countries from around the world. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed papers on the topic of diet and inflammation, which have produced many thousands of citations to this work by scientists from all over the world.