Clare Meernik

Clare Meernik, PhD, MPH is a Research Assistant Professor at the Kenneth H. Cooper Institute at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Medicine. She is an epidemiologist with expertise in chronic disease prevention, cancer survivorship, and healthy aging. Her research focuses on disease prevention and healthy aging through lifestyle-based strategies.

Dr. Meernik has authored more than 55 peer-reviewed manuscripts in journals including JAMA, BMJ, Pediatrics, Human Reproduction, and Tobacco Control. Her research spans topics such as cancer epidemiology and survivorship, tobacco prevention and control, cardiorespiratory fitness, and aging.

She was previously awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute and was a T32 Fellow in the Cancer Control Education Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She also completed the Physical Activity and Public Health (PAPH) Research Course at the University of South Carolina.

Prior to her current role, Dr. Meernik was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Duke University School of Medicine and a Research Specialist with the Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program at the UNC Department of Family Medicine. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and her MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.