Andrea Glenn

Biography

Andrea J. Glenn, MSc, RD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. She is also a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her BSc in Nutrition at St. Francis Xavier University, RD training at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), MSc and PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, and postdoctoral training in Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Her main research interests include addressing questions of public health and clinical importance in relation to dietary patterns, plant protein, and cardiometabolic disease risk, particularly cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and healthy aging. She explores these research areas by incorporating epidemiological analyses, clinical trial data, and metabolomics

Education and Training

• BSc, Nutrition
  St. Francis Xavier University
• MSc, Nutritional Sciences
  University of Toronto
• RD, Dietetic Internship
  Mount Sinai Hospital
• PhD, Nutritional Sciences
  University of Toronto
• PDF, Nutritional Epidemiology
  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Awards and Honors

• CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022 - 2024
  Canadian Institute of Health Research

Publications

• Dietary plant-to-animal protein ratio and risk of cardiovascular disease in 3 prospective cohorts.

  Glenn AJ, Wang F, Tessier AJ, Manson JE, Rimm EB, Mukamal KJ, Sun Q, Willett WC, Rexrode KM, Jenkins DJ, Hu FB. Am J Clin Nutr 2024

• The Portfolio Diet and HbA1c in Adults Living with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Patient-Level Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Dietary Trials.

  Kavanagh ME, Back S, Chen V, Glenn AJ, Viscardi G, Houshialsadat Z, Sievenpiper JL, Kendall CWC, Jenkins DJA, Chiavaroli L. Nutrients 2024 Aug 23

• Integration of epidemiological and blood biomarker analysis links haem iron intake to increased type 2 diabetes risk.

  Wang F, Glenn AJ, Tessier AJ, Mei Z, Haslam DE, Guasch-Ferré M, Tobias DK, Eliassen AH, Manson JE, Clish C, Lee KH, Rimm EB, Wang DD, Sun Q, Liang L, Willett WC, Hu FB. Nat Metab 2024

• Simulation model to assess the validity of the clinical portfolio diet score used in the PortfolioDiet.app for dietary self-tracking: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial in hyperlipidemic adults.

  Kavanagh ME, Glenn AJ, Chiavaroli L, Morgan GA, Josse RG, Malik VS, Marinangeli CPF, Kendall CWC, Jenkins DJA, Sievenpiper JL. Front Nutr 2025

• Association of glycaemic index and glycaemic load with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of mega cohorts of more than 100?000 participants.

  Jenkins DJA, Willett WC, Yusuf S, Hu FB, Glenn AJ, Liu S, Mente A, Miller V, Bangdiwala SI, Gerstein HC, Sieri S, Ferrari P, Patel AV, McCullough ML, Le Marchand L, Freedman ND, Loftfield E, Sinha R, Shu XO, Touvier M, Sawada N, Tsugane S, van den Brandt PA, Shuval K, Khan TA, Paquette M, Sahye-Pudaruth S, Patel D, Siu TFY, Srichaikul K, Kendall CWC, Sievenpiper JL. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2024