Erin Ferranti is an Associate Professor of Nursing at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing with additional appointments in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory School of Medicine and in the Nutrition and Health Sciences Program at Emory University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA). 

Dr. Ferranti is a public health nurse scientist dedicated to prevention and health promotion science in addressing health inequities through three specific areas of emphasis: Factors contributing to cardiometabolic risk and nutrition patterns in women to reduce inequities in maternal morbidity and mortality, farmworker health and nutrition, and diabetes and hypertension prevention. Her NIH-funded and AHA-funded program of research is focused on testing interventions to mitigate cardiometabolic disease progression in disparate and at-risk perinatal and postnatal populations.

Dr. Ferranti serves as the Director of the Farmworker Family Health Program.

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Dr. Ferranti is passionate about engaging students in public health practice. She co-coordinates the undergraduate Population Health course.

Dr. Erin Ferranti is a cardiometabolic nurse researcher whose program of research is focused on identifying the role of the gut microbiome and effective dietary strategies to mitigate cardiometabolic risk burden in women of childbearing age who have had cardiometabolic complications during pregnancy. She is a current BIRCWH K12 scholar with her project, entitled “Microbiome, Diet and Persistence of Cardiometabolic Dysregulation in African American Postpartum Women”. With this study she is examining the mechanistic determinants of within-race variability for the persistence of cardiometabolic dysregulation in the postpartum timeframe in women who had gestational diabetes and/or hypertensive disorders during pregnancy. Dr. Ferranti is alsocompleting an Emory HERCULES pilot project investigating the metabolic pathways and multi-dimensional relationships among environmental exposures, the microbiome, and the metabolome to understand mechanis tic pathways to preterm birth.

• 2025-2026: National Academy of Medicine, State Health Policy Fellow 2025-2026
• 2025-2026: President, Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association
• 2025: American Heart Association, Healthcare Volunteer of the Year