Emily Meredith D'Agostino

Dr. D’Agostino is a community-engaged epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine. She also is the Associate Editor of Childhood Obesity, Director of Community-Engaged Research Practice in the Division of Occupational Therapy, and co-Director of the Duke Center for Child Obesity Research. Dr. D’Agostino’s research draws from over 20 years of experience working directly in school and park settings to develop innovative, community-based strategies targeting health access for all. She holds expertise in physical activity, obesity, fitness, and mental well-being in community settings, multilevel modeling techniques, analysis of complex longitudinal datasets, and methods of epidemiology instruction. Dr. D’Agostino serves as PI on the Youth Empowered Self-Care (YES) and Going Places studies to promote youth well-being and physical activity in close collaboration with Parks and Recreation. She also serves as Co-PI on the You & Me: Test and Treat study, Co-PI on the You and Me Healthy Registry program, and Co-I on the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program that coordinates 143 research projects and develops community-engaged research capacity nationally. She holds appointments in the Duke Department of Population Health Sciences, the Duke Global Health Institute, and is a faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr. D’Agostino obtained her doctoral training in epidemiology at the City University of New York, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.