Dr Ahluwalia is Chair, Nutrition Epidemiology RIS, American Society of Nutrition, 2014-16 and is the Nutrition Monitoring Advisor for the DHANES, NCHS, CDC. Prior to joining CDC in 2012 Naman was Distinguished Chair in Nutrition Epidemiology in the University of Paris, France. Research interest, include: Micronutrients particularly iron nutrition in health and disease, Nutrition and Cardiometabolic risk, Nutrition and Inflammation and Nutrition in Infancy, Childhood, and Ageing.