Clare Meernik

Clare Meernik, PhD, MPH is a Research Assistant Professor at the Kenneth H. Cooper Institute at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and holds an adjunct Assistant Professor appointment at Duke University School of Medicine. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University in the Department of Population Health Sciences. Dr. Meernik completed her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, and her MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She was also previously a Research Specialist with the Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program at the UNC Department of Family Medicine.

Prior to joining the Kenneth H. Cooper Institute, Dr. Meernik’s research focused on tobacco control, cancer epidemiology, and cancer survivorship, with a particular focus on improving quality of life after cancer. She has extensive experience in epidemiologic study design, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and program evaluation.

At the Kenneth H. Cooper Institute, she leads research related to healthy lifestyles and the prevention of chronic disease. To date, she has published more than 55 peer-reviewed studies in journals including JAMA, BMJ, Pediatrics, Human Reproduction, and Tobacco Control.