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Emily Meredith D'Agostino

Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery, Occupational Therapy
311 Trent Dr., 2nd FL, Occupational Therapy Doctorate Division, Durham, NC 27710

Awards & Honors


NICHD Director's Award

National NIH · 2021

Reviewer of the Year

National American Journal of Epidemiology · 2017

Student Research Paper Contest Publication

Scholarly Society Preventing Chronic Disease · 2017

Elected Member

National American College of Epidemiology · 2017

Master's Honors Thesis

State City College of New York, School of Education · 2005

Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics Scholar

University New York University · 2004

Rookie of the Year Teaching Award

Department New York City Department of Education · 2004

AmeriCorps Teaching Fellow

National New York City Teach for America · 2002

Medical Humanities Scholar

University Stanford University · 2001

Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society

National Pomona College · 1997

Research Education Fellow (R25)

National National Institutes of Health · 1997

Magna cum laude

School Pomona College · 1997

Research Education Fellow (R25)

National National Institutes of Health · 1996

In the News


Published October 11, 2023
Reaching Hispanic Communities on Covid Response
Published June 17, 2021
Is Health in Durham Connected to Access to Local Parks?
Published February 3, 2021
Study Shows Minimal COVID-19 Infections Among Children at Day Camps
Published May 11, 2020
Make the next generation more science-literate
Published September 20, 2019
High school public health courses would benefit students and their communities.
Published September 19, 2019
CUNY: High School Public Health Courses Would Benefit Students and Their Communities.
Published September 17, 2019
High school public health courses would benefit students and their communities. Press Releases & Announcements
Published July 31, 2019
New Epidemiology Data Have Been Reported by Investigators at Pfizer Inc. (Teaching on the Continuum: Epidemiology Education from High School Through Graduate School
Published March 12, 2019
Improving physical fitness strongly linked to lower absenteeism in schools
Published March 8, 2019
Improving physical fitness linked to lower absenteeism in middle schoolers
Published March 7, 2019
Fit and active kids stay in school: Attendance is higher among teens who get fitter each year, study finds
Published March 6, 2019
Better CV fitness confers reduced absenteeism in middle school students
Published March 6, 2019
Improved Physical Fitness Linked to Lower Absenteeism in NYC Students
Published March 6, 2019
Improving physical fitness strongly linked to lower absenteeism for New York City middle schoolers.
Published March 6, 2019
Improving physical fitness strongly linked to lower absenteeism for New York City middle schoolers.
Published October 15, 2018
Girls Excel in Sports and Fitness in Miami-Dade County Parks Fit2Play Afterschool Program
Published September 5, 2018
Desegregated Playtime Gives Health a Boost
Published August 31, 2018
Studies from E. D'Agostino et al Further Understanding of Epidemiology (Public Health Education: Teaching Epidemiology in High School Classrooms)
Published June 18, 2018
Reports Outline Cardiovascular Research Study Findings from E.M. D'Agostino and Colleagues (Impact of change in neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation on cardiovascular health in minority youth attending a park-based afterschool program)
Published May 26, 2018
Reports from E.M. D'Agostino et al Highlight Recent Findings in Cardiovascular Research (Natural experiment examining the longitudinal association between change in residential segregation and youth cardiovascular health across race/ethnicity ...)
Published March 7, 2018
CUNY Researchers Find That Improvements in Fitness Bring Improvements in Attendance Among High-Poverty New York City Students
Published February 23, 2018
Findings on Preventive Medicine Detailed by Investigators at CUNY (Individual-Level Fitness and Absenteeism in New York City Middle School Youths, 2006-2013)
Published January 2, 2018
Principals, administrators, and superintendents, take notice of the latest research on fitness absenteeism!
Published December 15, 2017
Findings from E.M. D’Agostino and Co-Authors Update Knowledge of Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions (Longitudinal analysis of cardiovascular disease risk profile in neighbourhood poverty subgroups: 5-year results from an afterschool fitness …)
Published March 10, 2017
Division of Epidemiology plays host to annual gathering of leaders. NYC Epidemiology Forum Convenes at NYU School of Medicine
Published November 23, 2016
ISSUES: M-D Parks’ Fit2Lead Program – Helping Local Youth
Published August 1, 2016
Miami-Dade Parks: Fit2Lead & Fit2Play