Dr. Shristi Rawal obtained her B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Agnes Scott College in 2006, and her MS in Health Promotion and PhD in Public Health from the University of Connecticut in 2010 and 2015, respectively. From 2015 to 2017, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Epidemiology Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences at the School of Health Professions, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA. Dr. Rawal’s research emphasis has been on identifying early biomarkers and dietary and lifestyle determinants of gestational diabetes as well as risk factors for its progression to type 2 diabetes and other cardiometabolic complications such as renal dysfunction. She is a principal investigator on two pregnancy cohort studies, in Dhulikhel, Nepal, and Newark, New Jersey. She also serves as a principal investigator on an NIH-funded study that aims to develop and test a mobile health application for self-management and treatment of gestational diabetes among pregnant women in Nepal.