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Kirsten A. Herrick, MSc, PhD (she/her/hers)

Program Director
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Rockville, Maryland, United States

Kirsten A. Herrick, PhD, MSc, is a Program Director in the Health Behaviors Research Branch (HBRB) of the Behavioral Research Program (BRP), in NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). In this capacity, she leads a portfolio focused on the role of nutrition, alcohol use, obesity, and contextual measures, from cancer prevention through survivorship. Her portfolio leverages innovative measurement methods and analytic approaches — including AI-enabled dietary assessment, biomarkers, mobile tools, and wearables — to improve the rigor and reach of cancer-related behavioral research.

Her research interests include dietary surveillance; nutritional epidemiology; usual intake methodology and measurement error; food consumption patterns, particularly among infants birth to 24 months; dietary assessment, with a special interest in iodine; and measurement and description of consumption patterns related to food processing and food formulation.

Dr. Herrick oversees the web-based Automated, Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Assessment Tool (ASA24), a freely available web-based tool that enables multiple, automatically coded, self-administered 24-hour recalls and/or single or multi-day food records. She also oversees the Diet History Questionnaire, NCI’s publicly available food frequency questionnaire, and serves as the Project Scientist for the NIH Common Fund’s Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program.

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