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CUNY SPH is delighted to announce that, after surpassing expectations in the role of interim associate dean for faculty affairs, Professor Ghada Soliman has been appointed to the position effective January 26, 2026.
Dr. Soliman is a tenured professor of nutrition in the Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences. She is also an affiliated faculty with the Structural Biology Initiative of the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the CUNY Graduate Center.
She received her medical degree from Cairo University in Egypt and earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona in Tucson, with a major in nutritional biochemistry and a minor in immunology and microbiology. She was awarded a USDA postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center and was an NIH-T32 postdoctoral trainee in atherosclerosis and vascular biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K01 Career Development Grant at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Michigan. In addition, she completed her dietetic internship at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor and is a licensed registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN).
At CUNY SPH, Dr. Soliman served an integral role in revising the MPH in Public Health Nutrition curriculum, expanding the academic nutrition agenda, and developing the Environmental and Planetary Health Sciences (EPHS) PhD curriculum. She has served as the chair of the school-wide admissions committee and the Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences faculty search committee. She is also a member of the SPARC KIPS/Bay Space Committee, the staff awards committee, the College Association Board of the Graduate Students Government Association, and the strategic planning committee. Her current research focuses on public health nutrition, the nutritional exposome, and metabolic pathways with emphasis on cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health outcomes.
Prior to her appointment to CUNY SPH in 2017, Dr. Soliman served on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Western Michigan University, and the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Soliman, who can be reached at ghada.soliman@sph.cuny.edu.
