Translational Public Health Nutrition
Clinical · Research · Policy · Population Health
New York University
MPH · School of Global Public Health
Bronx, New York
Essen Healthcare · Sept 2024 — present
Dhriti Gaur · Portfolio

Translating nutrition
science into systems
that scale.

Dhriti is a public health nutrition specialist and biotechnology-trained researcher working at the intersection of clinical practice, translational research, and population-level chronic disease prevention — with focused interest in diabesity, metabolic health, and the implementation gaps that keep evidence-based nutrition from reaching the patients who need it most.

Portrait of Dhriti Gaur
DHRITI GAUR · SHE/HER
Current Position
Active
Nutritionist (CNS Candidate)
Essen Healthcare · multispecialty system · Bronx, NY
Volume3,300+ consults / yr
Specialties9+ care lines
3,300+
Supervised clinical nutrition consultations annually
NYC · Essen Healthcare
75%
Measurable improvement across glycemic, lipid, body composition & anemia markers
Chronic disease cohort
9 briefs
Policy briefs, reviews, op-eds & public testimony — G20 to NYC Board of Health
Translational outputs
4 continents
North America · Europe · Asia · Africa — clinical, field & policy practice
2016 — present
§ 01About

A practice rooted in biology,
built for systems.

Dhriti trained as a biomedical engineer before re-training in public health nutrition — and now operates across the full translational stack, from molecular biology to clinical encounter to population intervention.

She thinks like a biomedical engineer — systems, signals, feedback loops — and practises like a nutritionist who has seen what happens when those systems fail at scale.

Her early academic and research experiences included molecular diagnostics, genomics-focused laboratory work, and undergraduate research exploring the interaction between plant-derived compounds and chronic disease therapeutics. Over time, her interests expanded beyond bench science toward broader questions surrounding nutrition, metabolic health, chronic disease prevention, and population-level health systems. Her work and experiences now span clinical nutrition, public health, translational research synthesis, and longitudinal approaches to metabolic and preventive care.

At NYU's School of Global Public Health she trained as an MPH in Public Health Nutrition, with field, policy, and clinical placements across South Asia, the United States, Europe, and Africa. Today she provides precision nutrition education and counseling to the underserved community in the Bronx, contributes to UN FAO policy work, and develops scalable wellness frameworks for employer-side and population-level chronic disease prevention.

Her vision is simple: nutrition is one of the most under-implemented levers in chronic disease care. Closing that implementation gap — clinically, structurally, and at scale — is the work.

§ 02Clinical Practice

Supervised Medical nutrition therapy in a regulated system.

A high-volume, multispecialty clinical practice — built around evidence-based protocols, longitudinal monitoring, and coordinated care across nine specialties.

Nutrition Coach (CNS Candidate) Essen Healthcare

LocationBronx, NY
TenureSept 2024 — present
SupervisionUnder MD

Dhriti provides supervised medical nutrition therapy within a regulated multispecialty health system — managing complex metabolic and chronic conditions through structured protocols, laboratory and anthropometric interpretation, and pharmacology-aware intervention design.

  • Delivers 3,300+ clinical nutrition consultations annually (75+ patients/week) across diabetes, obesity, PCOS/PMOS, GI, allergies, and micronutrient deficiencies.
  • Coordinates care across endocrinology, psychiatry, GI, cardiology, pulmonology, gynecology, and primary care for aligned nutrition planning.
  • Supporting the build of an Obesity Management Program and an ADCES & Medicare-aligned DSMT service line.
  • Partners with NYReach, TNHC, and food banks on medically-tailored nutrition for food-insecure patients.
Conditions managed.
Table 1
Metabolic & endocrine
Type 2 Diabetes Pre-diabetes Obesity Metabolic Syndrome PCOS Thyroid disorders Dyslipidemia
Gastrointestinal & allergy
IBS GERD Celiac IBD Food allergies & intolerances
Cardiometabolic & renal
Hypertension CVD risk CKD (early stage)
Micronutrient & behavioral
Iron-deficiency anemia B12 / vitamin D deficiency Neurodivergent-sensitive care
Documented Outcome · representative cohort
75%
Measurable improvement across glycemic control, lipid markers, body composition, and anemia indices in a representative chronic-disease cohort.
§ 03Community & Founder Work

DG Sustainophile — an SDG-aligned
non-profit, founded during COVID-19 lockdown.

Founded during the COVID-19 pandemic while Dhriti was an undergraduate at Bennett University — a UN SDG-aligned non-profit translating sustainable nutrition into things people can actually do at home.

What started as an idea during lockdown and online exams became an ongoing community public-health initiative — running webinars with senior gynaecologists and public-health doctors, and translating the UN's Sustainable Development Goals into everyday practice.

01DIY diets & everyday sustainable nutrition
02Menstrual hygiene & women's health
03Zero-waste living
04UN SDG-aligned community programs
Follow @sustainophile_dg Programs, resources & SDG-aligned nutrition on Instagram
§ 04Population Health & Employer Wellness

Where nutrition meets
implementation.

The areas Dhriti is most interested in building — open questions on the structural gaps in chronic disease care, and the systems she believes can close them. Early-stage frameworks for employer-side and population-level deployment.

Most of what nutrition needs to change in chronic disease is not new science. It's implementation. The gap between what we know and what scales reaches the patient — through clinics, employer benefits, public health systems, and policy — is where Dhriti's translational practice sits.

Interest · 01
Post-GLP-1 Care

The post-GLP-1 era

GLP-1s have reset the obesity conversation — but the hard part begins after the prescription. The gap Dhriti most wants to build into: structured nutrition care and weight-loss maintenance for the post-GLP-1 patient, once the drug — or the coverage — runs out.

The next decade of obesity care isn't the molecule. It's what holds the result in place after it.
Interest · 02
Scalable Systems

Scalable wellness systems

Most employer wellness programs operate as benefits, not as care systems — fragmented vendors, weak data continuity, no clinical hand-off. The shift Dhriti is interested in: wellness as a longitudinal protocol, not a perk.

Wellness should be a service line, with care pathways, measurable outcomes, and clinical accountability — not a perk vendor.
Interest · 03
Diabesity Prevention

Chronic disease prevention, upstream

Diabesity (diabetes + obesity) is the central population-health pattern of the next two decades. Most interventions arrive downstream — at diagnosis, at complication, at hospitalization. The economics and the science both favor structured upstream nutrition care.

The most under-priced lever in chronic care is the patient who hasn't been diagnosed yet.
Interest · 04
Monitoring

Longitudinal monitoring over snapshot care

Clinical nutrition is typically funded as discrete encounters. The interesting outcomes — body composition, glycemic trajectory, micronutrient repletion, behavioral consolidation — show up on multi-quarter timescales. Programs that don't measure on that timescale can't optimize on it.

What gets measured longitudinally is what compounds.
Interest · 05
Employer Models

Employer wellness as a clinical channel

Employers are an under-used distribution channel for population metabolic health — already trusted, already paying for healthcare, already collecting health metrics. The opportunity is structured: clinical-grade nutrition protocols, deployed at scale, with shared outcome benchmarks.

The fastest distribution channel for translational nutrition is the HR & benefits stack — not the hospital.
Interest · 06
Population Metabolic Health

Population metabolic health as a measurable system

HbA1c, LDL, waist-circumference, ferritin, and 25-OH-D distributions across a defined population are knowable, fixable signals. The architecture that makes them visible, actionable, and longitudinal — not the science of any one intervention — is the bottleneck.

You can't optimize what you can't observe. Population metabolic dashboards are infrastructure.
§ 05Writing & Insights

Field notes from a
translational clinic.

A Medium publication — essays at the intersection of clinical nutrition, population metabolic health, and the implementation systems that connect (or fail to connect) the two.

A Medium publication
Writing on
Medium
By Dhriti Gaur · New York

Slow reads from a fast clinic. Essays on chronic disease, metabolic health, food policy, and the gap between what nutrition science knows and what reaches the patient. Follow on Medium for irregular but considered writing.