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Samantha L. Huey, PhD (she/her/hers)

Research Associate
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, United States


Dr. Samantha Huey, PhD is a Research Associate in the Center for Precision Health and Nutrition at Cornell University. Prior to this, Dr. Huey was the NIH Maternal and Child Nutrition Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Dr. Huey received her B.S. in Biology with minors in Nutrition & Global Diseases from Cedar Crest College (Allentown, PA) in 2013, and her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University in 2020, concentrating in International Nutrition with minors in Epidemiology and Immunology & Infectious Diseases (committee chair: Dr. Saurabh Mehta). Her research interests include examining the connections between nutrition, the gut microbiota and immune function in maternal and child health and in particular how precision nutrition may apply in this context. Dr. Huey is investigating these questions in children and mothers who participated in two randomized controlled trials in Mumbai and South India, both of which examined the efficacy of consuming biofortified crops-based foods on growth, immunity, and cognition. During her PhD training, she lived for two years in Mumbai to facilitate the first trial—which involved a complex study design, 20 urban slum community field sites, and managing hundreds of personnel and staff. She conducted an acceptability trial before the study was launched, published in 2017. Her dissertation work on nutrition status and the gut microbiome in the children participating in the Mumbai trial has been published in both nutrition and microbiology journals. Dr. Huey’s current research questions include determining the impact of biofortified crops on the gut microbiome and whether the gut microbiome may predict longer team health outcomes; of particular interest is elucidating inter-individual differences in response to the intervention. Dr. Huey also leads efforts to synthesize evidence on micronutrients, biofortification, obesity, precision nutrition, diagnostic test accuracy, the gut microbiome, and maternal and child health to enable translation to action and guidelines such as for the World Health Organization. Dr. Huey also supports the NIH Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) Initiative as part of the Data & Analytics Team for the Research Coordinating Center (RCC), co-led by Cornell and RTI International.

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