Program Director
National Institutes of Health
Kirsten A. Herrick, Ph.D., M.Sc., is a Program Director with the Risk Factor Assessment Branch (RFAB) of the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) in NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). Her focus is on developing, designing, and conducting nutrition research related to dietary methods, dietary instruments, measurement error, dietary surveillance, and nutritional epidemiology.
Dr. Herrick oversees the web-based Automated, Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Assessment Tool (ASA24), a freely available web-based tool which enables collection of auto-coded, self-administered 24-hour recalls and/or single or multi-day food records. Dr. Herrick also oversees the Diet History Questionnaire, NCI’s publicly available food frequency questionnaire. She also serves as the Project Scientist for the NIH Common Fund’s Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program. Dr. Herrick’s scientific interests include nutrient intakes and food consumption patterns among infants birth to 24 months, breastfeeding disparities, iodine nutrition, and ultra-processed food identification and consumption.
Dr. Herrick received her B.S. in biochemistry and psychology from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, her M.Sc. degree in maternal and child nutrition from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at The University College London in the UK, and her Ph.D. in nutrition health sciences from Emory University.