Alex Cowan-Pyle

Alexandra E. Cowan-Pyle is a Research Faculty III member in the College of Medicine’s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine and in the Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health (ICON-Health) at Florida State University. In her present role, her work focuses on nutritional status assessment and how dietary exposures differentially impact population subgroups to provide more specific nutrition guidance for health promotion and chronic disease prevention.

Prior to her current role, Dr. Cowan-Pyle received her M.S. and her Ph.D. in Nutrition Science from Purdue University and completed an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics, in the Division of NHANES, and a USDA-ARS postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture at Texas A&M University. As a nutritional epidemiologist, her research is predominantly focused on assessing micronutrient exposures in relation to human health across the life course, improving quantitative methods of dietary assessment to optimize human health, and dietary supplement research. She is currently a member of the American Society of Nutrition and serves as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.