NHANES Analysis Branch Chief
CDC/National Center for Health Statistics
Over a more than 2-decade career in the NHANES Division at CDC, Dr. Ogden has become an internationally recognized expert in nutritional and obesity epidemiology. She was a member of the team that developed the 2000 CDC pediatric growth charts and led the development of the recently released CDC Extended BMI-for-age growth charts. She has published more than 175 papers, government documents and book chapters on topics in nutrition, diet, obesity, growth, and physical activity. Cynthia also is an associate editor for Obesity, the journal of The Obesity Society. Cynthia joined CDC as an EIS Officer after a post-doctoral year in the Nutrition Division at the New York State Department of Health. She has worked on nutrition related projects for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and currently is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, advising students and teaching courses on nutritional and obesity epidemiology. Cynthia earned her Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from Cornell University where her research focused on socio-economic contributions to malnutrition among young children in Kigali, Rwanda.