Our Team

Dr. Griffin is the Interim Director of the Extension Center for Health Outreach (ECHO), a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, a Clemson University School of Health Research fellow and Prisma Health research fellow. She has over thirty years of experience in public health and in April of 2025 was named Centennial Professor for Clemson University. Dr. Griffin has extensive experience implementing and evaluating complex health interventions focused on chronic disease prevention and management for adults and children in a wide variety of settings. Dr. Griffin is an expert in evaluation design, mixed methods research, and qualitative research and is an active member of the American Academy of Health Behavior and the American Public Health Association. Dr. Griffin's research is focused on improving health through community engaged research interventions. Most of this work is focused on chronic disease prevention and management, with a specific focus on preventing obesity. Dr. Griffin is the Principal Investigator for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded rural health extension obesity prevention initiative in ten SC counties, the Healthy Options Program. She is a Co-Investigator on an American Heart Association project to improve health through community engaged research in collaboration with LiveWell Greenville and Furman University. Dr. Griffin is also a Co-Investigator and lead evaluator for the DMA-PRIME project aimed at improving infectious disease outbreak response through close collaboration with numerous partners for early detection and forecasting mechanisms. She has published numerous national/international peer-reviewed manuscripts related to improving health and serves on the editorial review committee for several leading national health journals.

Dr. Wilson is the Interim Assistant Director of the Extension Center for Health Outreach (ECHO), an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences, and a registered dietitian nutritionist. Her research focuses on developing, disseminating, and implementing programs to reduce the public health burden of lifestyle-related chronic diseases that account for many of the leading causes of death, disability, and poor quality of life in the United States. Dr. Wilson’s research experience includes weight, dietary intake, and physical activity assessment; program development and evaluation; and dissemination and implementation science. Dr. Wilson serves as the Principal Investigator for multiple food is medicine, chronic disease-focused, multi-site studies that utilize mixed methods research methodology. These include a USDA-funded Rural Health and Safety Education project to support Extension professionals and charitable food network partners in serving individuals with chronic diseases; an American Heart Association-funded lifestyle management intervention for chronic stroke survivors; another USDA-funded project to address impacts of weather and related disasters on chronic disease management; and a National Watermelon Promotion Board-funded project to evaluate the impacts of whole watermelon and watermelon juice consumption on diet quality and chronic disease biomarkers. She is co-Principal Investigator for a USDA GusNIP-funded Nutrition Incentive project to promote fresh, local fruit and vegetable intake among SNAP recipients in partnership with Piggly Wiggly in Lamar, South Carolina. She is an active member of professional organizations like the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and she has published her research in national and international peer-reviewed journals.