Rate My Professor Kim Doughty

Kim Doughty is Assistant Professor of Public Health and Elizabeth McInerny Chair of Health Sciences in the Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University. She serves as director of the undergraduate Public Health program and holds PhD, MPH, and CHES credentials. Dr. Doughty chairs the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for the Egan School and participates in faculty committees including the Faculty Committee on Sustainability. Her career at Fairfield involves mentoring student research, such as guiding senior capstone projects on mental health among student-athletes presented at academic conferences and co-authoring publications with undergraduates. The Elizabeth McInerny Chair supports her research and faculty-mentored student projects in health sciences.

Dr. Doughty's research focuses on nutrition, public health interventions, and maternal-infant health, with key contributions including 'Cocoa and chocolate in human health and disease' (2011, Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, 779 citations), 'Effects of walnut consumption on endothelial function in type 2 diabetic subjects' (2010, Diabetes Care, 296 citations), 'Lifestyle medicine and the management of cardiovascular disease' (2017, Current Cardiology Reports), and 'Perspective: the public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality' (2019, Advances in Nutrition). Recent work addresses breastfeeding barriers for women with gestational diabetes, such as 'Barriers and benefits to breastfeeding with gestational diabetes' (2021, Seminars in Perinatology) and an article in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior assessing mothers’ perceptions of judgment for infant feeding practices, co-authored with an undergraduate student. Her scholarship appears in journals like Public Health Nutrition, Breastfeeding Medicine, and the International Journal of Cardiology, often in collaboration with experts in preventive medicine. Dr. Doughty's publications inform public health strategies on diet quality, cardiovascular risk, and perinatal epidemiology, enhancing evidence-based practices in health promotion.