Cheryl A. M. Anderson

Cheryl Ann Marie Anderson is an American epidemiologist. She is a professor of family medicine and public health at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She is the Interim Chair of Family Medicine and Public Health at UCSD.

Anderson completed a bachelor of arts with honors in health and society from Brown University in 1992. She earned a master of public health in 1994 from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1997, Anderson completed a master of science in the department of epidemiology at University of Washington. Her master's thesis was titled Dietary factors in Parkinson's disease: the role of food groups and specific foods. She obtained a doctor of philosophy from the University of Washington department of epidemiology interdisciplinary program in nutritional sciences in 2001. Her dissertation was titled The response of blood folate levels to folic acid supplementation: results from a crossover trial. Anderson's doctoral advisors were Shirley A. A. Beresford and Johanna Lampe. Anderson completed a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Washington in 2002.

Anderson was an affiliate member in the Cancer Prevention Research Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from 2001 to 2002. She was an instructor of epidemiology from 2002 to 2005 in the department of biostatistics and epidemiology at University of Pennsylvania Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Anderson was an assistant scientist from 2005 to 2007 in the department of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was core faculty at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research from 2006 to 2012 at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. She served a joint appointment as an assistant professor in the division of general medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the departments of epidemiology and international health (human nutrition) in Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was the director of the bachelor of science in public health program at University of California, San Diego from 2012 to 2014. In 2015, she became the co-director of the University of California San Diego Center of Excellence in Health Promotion and Health Equity. She became an associate professor in 2012 in the department of family medicine and public health at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Anderson is a fellow of the American Heart Association. She was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.