Nicola McKeown is Scientist I on the Nutritional Epidemiology Team at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University. She is an associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and holds a secondary faculty position in the Department of Public Health & Community Medicine at Tufts University.

Dr. McKeown received a B.S. in Human Nutrition from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge in England.