Research conducted in the Dhananjay Vaidya Lab focuses on the prevention of heart disease, with special emphasis on cardiometabolic risk factors, genetics in high-risk families, cardiovascular epidemiology, statistics and vascular biology. We also provide consultation on study design as well as plan and oversee data analyses for projects supported by the Center for Child and Community Health Research.

I am a primary care doctor and public health researcher committed to improving women’s health and health care across their lives and improving gender and racial equity.

I am an Associate Professor of Medicine in The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine. My research focuses on identifying strategies to prevent and manage obesity and type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, particularly among women at highest risk due to pregnancy complications. I conduct pragmatic and community-based randomized controlled trials to test high impact and scalable strategies to reduce excessive weight gain in pregnancy, reduce postpartum weight retention and cardiometabolic risk.

I hold several leadership positions, and I am the Director of Research at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research and a Core Faculty Member of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research.