Megan Winkler
Asst Professor
Assistant Professor
Faculty, Behavioral/Social/Health Educ
Dr. Winkler is a population health scientist and former clinician. Her research centers two socio-structural determinants to population health and health equity-- (1) retail food environments and (2) people’s employment conditions, including their pay, benefits, and employment security. Leveraging a wide range of methodological tools from qualitative, social epidemiology, to systems science, she aims to understand the complex ways these determinants contribute to health and identify key opportunities for addressing the chronic, preventable, and inequitable challenges they create.
Dr. Winkler received her PhD in Nursing from Duke University and completed her post-doctoral training as a NIH 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
URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/healthy-food-retail-research-team-at-emory-university-068956244
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, 2022, Applications of Complex Systems Models to Improve Retail Food Environments for Population Health: A Scoping Review, Advances in Nutrition, ,
- Fujishiro K, Ahonen EQ, Winkler M., 2022, Investigating Employment Quality for Population Health and Health Equity: A Perspective of Power, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health , ,
- Winkler MR, Lenk K, Erickson D, Laska MN., 2022, Retailer marketing strategies and customer purchasing of sweetened beverages in convenience stores, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, ,
- Winkler MR, Lenk K, Erickson D, Laska MN. , 2022, Secular trends and customer characteristics of sweetened beverage and water purchasing at convenience and other small food stores, 2014-2017, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, ,
- 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 , ,
- 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 , ,