Tenure Track Investigator
NIH Clinical Center
Dr. Farmer is currently a Tenure-Track Invesitgator at the NIH Clinical Center. She is the Sectioin Head of the Dietary Behaviors and Biopsychosocial Health Section within the Translational Biobehavioral and Health Disparities Branch. She is also an adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the George Washington School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Farmer’s research focus may be categorized into three major areas: psychosocial outcomes of health behaviors, the role of cooking interventions on dietary behaviors and cardiovascular outcomes, and mechanisms of health disparities.
Dr. Farmer is an alumnus of Howard University College of Medicine, received her internal medicine training from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and held a prior appointment at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. She has completed fellowship-level training in Integrative Medicine from the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and Duke University Integrative Medicine. In 2021, Dr. Farmer was named a Harvard Macy Fellow for her work on incorporating humanities into culinary medicine education and dietary behavior research.