Associate Professor, Kinesiology, Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Dr. Hasson is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Kinesiology and Public Health and Director of the Childhood Disparities Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan. Using a transdisciplinary research approach, Dr. Hasson integrates her previous training in exercise physiology, energy metabolism, pediatric endocrinology, health disparities, and social epidemiology to: (1) identify the causes and consequences of pediatric obesity; (2) examine the environmental determinants that contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in obesity-related metabolic risk factors; and (3) use that information to develop behavioral interventions and to inform health policies designed to reduce obesity in pediatric populations. Dr. Hasson received her Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Southern California’s Childhood Obesity Research Center and a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco’s Center on Social Disparities in Health as a W.K. Kellogg Health Scholar.
