Jess Haines, PhD

Dr. Haines is Principal Investigator of the Fathers & Families Substudy. She is an Associate Professor of Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph in Canada. Prior to her appointment at University of Guelph, Dr. Haines was a faculty member at the Obesity Prevention Program in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has been a GUTS investigator for over 10 years. Her research is focused on identifying family-level factors that influence children’s health behaviors and then using that information to design and test family-based health promotion interventions.

Jess is the parent of two pre-teens. Her main parenting regret is how much she has worried about her kids throughout their lives.