Gabrielle Brewer, PhD, CISSN
Associate Director- KSI University of North Florida
Gabrielle J. Brewer, Ph.D., is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of North Florida and the University of Connecticut where she manages DoD and DARPA-funded projects and corporate-sponsored grants focused on integrative physiology to improve health, safety, and performance of athletes, workers, and military warfighters. Dr. Brewer researches the mechanisms by which physically active individuals experience exercise-heat stress, recovery, and adaptation with a special interest in women’s health and nutrition. She currently works as the Associate Director of the Korey Stringer Institute (KSI) at the UNF, the first KSI satellite lab.
Dr. Brewer is as an Occupational Heat Safety Advisor for KSI, is the Vice Chair of the Thermal Stress Working Group at AIHA, and is a member of UConn’s IRB. She is a Certified Sports Nutritionist through the ISSN and has given presentations on thermoregulation and heat safety to a variety of companies such as NASA and Delta, and has contributed to over 15 peer-reviewed publications related to heat stress, body composition, nutrition, and hydration.
Dr. Brewer received her doctorate degree in Exercise Science from the University of Connecticut, master’s degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota and is a former Gopher Cheerleader and competitive collegiate figure skater, placing 2nd (Ice Dance) at the 2014 US Figure Skating Intercollegiate Team Nationals. She has turned her experience of being a student-athlete into an academic passion of enhancing women’s health in physically active individuals.
