Elizabeth Adams , PhD, RD

Dr. Liz Adams, PhD, RD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at OHSU. She received her PhD in Nutrition from Cornell University in 1996 and worked with CDC's Divisions of Reproductive Health and Nutrition and Physical Activity from 1996-2000. Dr. Adams worked in maternal and child nutrition, with a focus on special health needs and global health before moving to Oregon. Dr. Adams joined the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC) as an epidemiologist in 2004.

Her research interests focus on nutrition and health outcomes of children with special health care needs. She directs the CDRC Office of Program Evaluation and Research, is PI for the OHSU site of Western Maternal and Child Health Nutrition Partners, and is the nutrition training coordinator for the OHSU LEND Program. In 2008 she joined the Oregon Hemophilia Center where she works as a nutritionist and epidemiologist. A special area of focus is the relationship between food insecurity and health. Liz works closely with the Childhood Hunger Coalition and the Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force.

Research:

• Nutrition Health outcomes for children with special health care needs
• Food insecurity and health

Education:

• Ph.D. Cornell University: Nutrition
• M.S. University of Washington: Nutrition
• B.S. Cornell University: Nutrition
• Post doctoral Centers for Disease Control: Epidemiology

Service:

• American Public Health Association
• American Dietetic Association
• American Society for Nutrition
• Graduate and Professional Education Committee
• Childhood Hunger Initiative
• Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force
  

Recent Publications:

• Adams E, Krahn G, Horner-Johnson, W, Leman R (2009) Fundamentals of Disability Epidemiology.  In Drum, C. E., Krahn, G. L., Bersani, H. Jr. (Eds.), Disability and Public Health [working title]. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association & American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
• Wisdom JP, MC Gee MM, Horner-Johnson W, Michael YL, Adams E, Berlin M (2009). Health disparities between women with and without disabilities: A review of the literature. Journal of Health and Social Policy.
• Clark, A., Anderson, J., Adams, E., Baker, S. Assessing an infant feeding website as a nutrition education tool for child care providers, J Nutr Educ Behav. 2009 Jan-Feb;41(1):41-6.
• Clark, A., Anderson, J., Adams, E., Baker, S. Assessing the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and training needs related to infant feeding, specifically breastfeeding, of child care providers, Matern Child Health J. 2008 Jan;12 (1):128-35.
• Suzuki, R., Krahn, G. L., McCarthy, M. J., & Adams, E. J. Understanding health outcomes: Physical secondary conditions in people with spinal cord injury. Rehabilitation Psychology, 52(3), 338-350, 2007.

Liz Adams, PhD, RD
Maternal & Child Health Epidemiologist
Nutrition Training Coordinator (LEND Program)
Child Development and Rehabilitation Center
Oregon Health & Science University
Phone: 503.494.0981
Fax: 503.494.6868