Title(s): Assistant Professor
Department: Epidemiology
Office: S431 CPHB
Phone: (319) 384-1546
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Molecular Epidemiology
- Nutrition in Public Health
Research Interests
- Diabetes and obesity
- Nutrition and physical activity
- Maternal and child health
- Life course epidemiology
- Chronic disease epidemiology
- Molecular epidemiology (including metabolomics)
- Genetic epidemiology (including genomics and epigenomics)
- Developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD)
- Microbiome
Background
Affiliations
In the News
- Afifi, Bao weigh in on e-cigarettes
- Study finds increasing number of young adults use e-cigarettes
- State Hygienic Lab receives CDC funding for new statewide biomonitoring program
- Study finds obese women more likely to give birth prematurely
- Study shows Americans still don’t get enough exercise
- Study finds waist size a forgotten factor in defining obesity
- Study links fried food to overall mortality
- Analysis finds many women of child-bearing age continue to smoke electronic cigarettes
- Skipping breakfast associated with higher risk of cardiovascular death
- UI study finds fried food linked to increased risk of death
- Bao discusses Iowa’s obesity ranking
- Study looks at prevalence, treatment patterns of autism spectrum disorder
- Bao comments on rise of ADHD diagnoses in U.S.
- UI study reveals the current rates of diagnosed type 1 and type 2 diabetes in American adults
- UI analysis finds significant increase in number of US children diagnosed with ADHD over 20 years
- Study links food allergy to autism spectrum disorder in children
- Analysis finds more people trying e-cigarettes, fewer people keep using them
- Trans fatty acid concentration linked to diabetes in U.S. adults
- Bao discusses prevalence of autism in the United States
- UI analysis finds more children are diagnosed with autism than previously thought
- Bao to talk about link between plastic containers, obesity at Science Cafe
- Preconception vitamin D may reduce gestational diabetes risk
- Study examines link between obesity, food container chemical substitutes
- Bao receives FOE Diabetes Research Center grant
- CPH Awards highlight faculty, staff achievements