Jithin Sam Varghese
Chroniq Lab, Emory University.
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
I am an Assistant Professor at the Hubert Department of Global Health. I am also core faculty in the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center.
Currently, my team and I study how metabolic differences at the individual level manifest as differences in morbidity (metabolic, cardiovascular, psychiatric, cancer, neurodegenerative) and mortality at the population level. We use different data sources (electronic health records, cohorts, surveys, non-traditional data streams) and analytical approaches (traditional statistical models, machine learning, latent variable models) to answer these questions.
Trainee Opportunities
I enjoy working with curious, driven, and ambitious trainees who want to challenge themselves in a fast-paced environment and publish first-author papers. A detailed list of publications, conference presentations, and other achievements of current and past team members are on the lab website.
My current projects are on the projects page. Given the nature of the projects I work on, prior coursework and demonstrating proficiency in programming is esssential. I am happy to meet and discuss how we can work together.
Here is a link to my CV.
Here is a link to my calendar.
Experience and Training
2024 - Assistant Professor, Emory University
2023 - 2024 Assistant Research Professor, Emory University
2022 - 2023 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Emory University
2018 - 2022 Nutrition and Health Sciences Doctoral Program, Emory University
2015 - 2018 Research Analyst, St. John's Research Institute
2014 - 2015 Junior Consultant, IMS Health
2009 - 2014 Dual Degree, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras
As part of my PhD, I studied how wealth over the life course is associated with cognition and health (physical, mental, socio-emotional) in low- and middle-income countries. My work used data from the COHORTS collaboration, a consortium of six birth cohorts from five LMICs.
As part of my Postdoctoral Fellowship, I worked with Emory Global Diabetes Research Center on three topics: diabetes subphenotypes, long COVID (post-acute sequelae) and cardiometabolic disease care continuum.