Megan Winkler, PhD, RN

Research Program

Cancer Prevention and Control
Phone Number

404-727-9634
Email Address

mwinkl3@emory.edu

Biography

Megan Winkler, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Winkler is a population health scientist and former clinician. She is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.

Education

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.

Titles & Roles

Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Research

Dr. Winkler's 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.

Publications

Title/Journal	Authors	Publication Date
Simulated retail food environments: A literature review of systems science approaches to advance equity in access to healthy diets. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity	Y Mui, MR Winkler, SL Hunt, J Gittelsohn, M Tracy	05/01/2025
State Earned Income Tax Credit and Food Security: Results Among Economically At-Risk Households With Children. American journal of preventive medicine	MR Winkler, R Clohan, KA Komro, MD Livingston, S Markowitz	04/18/2025
Community Engaged Research Strategies Used in Food Retail Interventions: A Scoping Review. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics	R Kaur, KM Janda-Thomte, B Bode, H Dastgerdized, C Kaliszewski, H Hudson, M Khare, MR Winkler	04/04/2025
State Minimum Wage and Food Insecurity Among US Households With Children. JAMA network open	MR Winkler, R Clohan, KA Komro, MD Livingston, S Markowitz	03/03/2025
Could Better-Quality Employment Improve Population Health? Findings From a Scoping Review of Multi-Dimensional Employment Quality Research and a Proposed Research Direction. American journal of industrial medicine	EQ Ahonen, MR Winkler, K Bosmans, V Gunn, M Julià	03/01/2025
Conducting industry informant interviews to advance healthy food retail initiatives: challenges, opportunities, and lessons. Health promotion international	AY Zhang, CC Antonacci, MN Laska, MR Winkler	12/01/2024
"Games being played": a US exploration of market strategies used by the beverage industry as experienced by food retailers. Globalization and health	MR Winkler, CC Antonacci, AY Zhang, MN Laska	11/14/2024
The Role of Food and Beverage Environments in Child Health and Weight-Related Behaviors. Pediatric clinics of North America	MN Laska, MR Winkler, N Larson	10/01/2024
The association between precarious employment and stress among working aged individuals in the United States. Preventive medicine	VM Oddo, S Mabrouk, SB Andrea, EQ Ahonen, MR Winkler, EF Vignola, A Hajat	10/01/2024
Ramifications of Precarious Employment for Health and Health Inequity: Emerging Trends from the Americas. Annual review of public health	A Hajat, SB Andrea, VM Oddo, MR Winkler, EQ Ahonen	05/01/2024
Rethinking Efforts to Improve Dietary Patterns Among Long-Haul Truck Drivers: Transforming Truck Stop Retail Food Environments Through Upstream Change. American journal of health promotion : AJHP	MK Lemke, B Houghtaling, MR Winkler, A Hege	07/01/2023
Food insecurity requires nursing action. Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)	ML Horning, J Lee, N Kamdar, MR Winkler	03/01/2023
Retailer Marketing Strategies and Customer Purchasing of Sweetened Beverages in Convenience Stores. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics	MR Winkler, K Lenk, DJ Erickson, MN Laska	11/01/2022
Work, Health, and the Ongoing Pursuit of Health Equity. International journal of environmental research and public health	EQ Ahonen, MR Winkler, A Hajat	10/28/2022
Refining the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS) for Healthy Community Stores: Adaptations to Capture Alternative Food Retailers and Align with Dietary Guidelines. International journal of environmental research and public health	AB Hill, R Kaur, SM Sundermeir, C Kasprzak, M Winkler, S John, RD Dombrowski, B Bode, J Gittelsohn	10/08/2022
Investigating Employment Quality for Population Health and Health Equity: A Perspective of Power. International journal of environmental research and public health	K Fujishiro, EQ Ahonen, M Winkler	08/13/2022
Applications of Complex Systems Models to Improve Retail Food Environments for Population Health: A Scoping Review. Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)	MR Winkler, Y Mui, SL Hunt, MN Laska, J Gittelsohn, M Tracy	08/01/2022
A Commentary on the Healthy Community Stores Case Study Project: Implications for Retailers, Policy, and Future Research. International journal of environmental research and public health	SM Sundermeir, MR Winkler, S John, U Colón-Ramos, R Kaur, A Hickson, RD Dombrowski, AB Hill, B Bode, J DeAngelo, J Gittelsohn	07/20/2022
Balancing Mission and Margins: What Makes Healthy Community Food Stores Successful. International journal of environmental research and public health	S John, MR Winkler, R Kaur, J DeAngelo, AB Hill, SM Sundermeir, U Colon-Ramos, LA Leone, RD Dombrowski, EC Lewis, J Gittelsohn	07/11/2022
Forms of Community Engagement in Neighborhood Food Retail: Healthy Community Stores Case Study Project. International journal of environmental research and public health	R Kaur, MR Winkler, S John, J DeAngelo, RD Dombrowski, A Hickson, SM Sundermeir, CM Kasprzak, B Bode, AB Hill, EC Lewis, U Colon-Ramos, J Munch, LL Witting, A Odoms-Young, J Gittelsohn, LA Leone	06/07/2022
Secular trends and customer characteristics of sweetened beverage and water purchasing at US convenience and other small food stores, 2014-2017. The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity	MR Winkler, K Lenk, D Erickson, MN Laska	03/31/2022
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 (1982)	K Fujishiro, EQ Ahonen, M Winkler	12/01/2021