Megan Winkler
Asst Professor
Assistant Professor
Faculty, Behavioral/Social/Health Educ
Dr. Winkler is a population health scientist and former clinician. Her research elucidates multilevel contributors to chronic preventable health challenges with particular interests in obesity, retail food environments, employment conditions, and health equity. Leveraging a variety of methods and methodologies, including qualitative, epidemiologic, and complexity science approaches, she has aimed to understand the contextual contributors and underlying complexity of formidable population health challenges to identify key opportunities for addressing them.
Dr. Winkler received her PhD in Nursing from Duke University and completed her post-doctoral training as a T32 and K99 postdoctoral scholar at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Road
Atlanta , GA 30322
1518-002-5AA
Phone: 404-727-9634
Fax: 404-727-1369
Email: MWINKL3@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Health Disparities
- Health Promotion
- Obesity Prevention
- Public Health Policy
- Social Determinants of Health
Education
- BSN 2006, Indiana University
- MSN 2010, University of Virginia
- PhD 2016, Duke University
Publications
- Megan R Winkler, Yeeli Mui, Shanda L Hunt, Melissa N Laska, Joel Gittelsohn, Melissa Tracy, 2021, Applications of Complex Systems Models to Improve Retail Food Environments for Population Health: A Scoping Review, Advances in Nutrition, ,
- Kaori Fujishiro, Emily Q. Ahonen, Megan Winkler, 2021, Poor-quality employment and health: How a welfare regime typology with a gender lens Illuminates a different work-health relationship for men and women, Social Science & Medicine, ,
- Winkler MR, Zenk SN, Baquero B, Anderson-Steeves E, Fleischhacker SE, Gittelsohn J, Leone LA, & Racine EF. , 2020, A model depicting the retail food environment and customer interactions: Components, outcomes, and future directions. , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating special issue)., ,
- Winpenny EM, Winkler MR, Stochl J, van Slujs EMF, Larson N, & Neumark-Sztainer D. , 2020, Associations of early adulthood life transitions with changes in fast food intake: A latent trajectory analysis. , International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, ,
- Winkler MR, Telke SE, Ahonen EQ, Crane MM, Mason SM, & Neumark-Sztainer D. , 2020, Constrained Choices: Combined influences of work, social circumstances, and social location on time-dependent health behaviors., SSM- Population Health , ,
- Leone LA, Fleischhacker SE, Anderson-Steeves E, Harper K, Winkler MR, Racine EF, Baquero B, & Gittelsohn J. , 2020, Healthy food retail during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and future directions. , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating special issue). , ,
- Caspi CE, Winkler MR, Lenk KM, Harnack LJ, Erickson DJ, & Laska MN., 2020, Store and neighborhood differences in retailer compliance with a local staple foods ordinance. , BMC Public Health , ,
- Singleton CR, Winkler MR, Houghtaling B, Adeyemi OS, Roehll AM, Pionke JJ, & Anderson-Steeves E. , 2020, Understanding the intersection of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geographic location: A scoping review of U.S. consumer food purchasing. , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating special issue). , ,
- Winkler MR, Lenk KM, Caspi CE, Erikson DJ, Harnack L, & Laska MN., 2019, Variation in the food environment of small and non-traditional stores across racial segregation and corporate status., Public Health Nutrition , ,
- Winkler MR, Mason S, Laska MN, Christoph M, & Neumark-Sztainer D., 2018, Does non-standard work mean non-standard health? Exploring links between non-standard work schedules, health behavior, and well-being., SSM- Population Health , ,