Jennifer Massa, ScD, began her focus into culinary nutrition investigating teaching kitchens as a preventative health intervention. She started her career in public health doing lab bench science at Harvard in the environmental health department investigating occupational health exposures and poor health outcomes. Dr. Massa then went on to Johns Hopkins where she helped perform a study of the rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade disaster site and the physical and mental health consequences of their first response efforts. She then returned to Harvard where she earned her joint Doctor of Science degree in Epidemiology and Nutrition, with a focus on diet, lifestyle, and associations with cancer in large Harvard cohorts. In her postdoctoral years, Dr. Massa joined a neuro-epidemiology group at Harvard studying viral and other environmental exposures and risk of multiple sclerosis. As a research associate at the Channing Lab, she continued her work in preventative medicine looking at sleep and circadian rhythms and risk of cancer and other health outcomes. Dr. Massa jointly held an appointment as instructor and researcher at the Harvard Medical School where she worked in the Anesthesia Department of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital helping to conduct randomized clinical studies. In addition to her position at Harvard, she is an advisor and is the lead research scientist for the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative research projects where she develops research protocols for the multi-site research efforts of the collaborative. She also sits on the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) steering committee for Whole Person Health.  In addition to her research efforts, Dr. Massa was a residential first year proctor and academic adviser at Harvard College for 15 years and continues to sit on the Freshman Board of Advisers. Dr. Massa currently lives in Cambridge, MA where she loves to run along the Charles River and dig in her community garden. (Cambridge, MA)