Sophia Hua is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests lie in obesity prevention via evidence-based policy changes that impact the environment and individual behavior. Before coming to Harvard, she worked as a project coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. During her time there, she primarily focused on a Philadelphia Beverage Tax evaluation…
Dr. Joshua Petimar is a Research Scientist in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. His research primarily focuses on ways to improve the retail food environment. This includes evaluating the effects of nutrition policies (such as calorie labeling and beverage taxes) and food marketing on diet and health outcomes. He does this using point of sale data from restaurants and supermarkets and electronic health…
Dr. Anna Grummon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a research fellow in the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Dr. Grummon is a behavioral scientist studying nutrition policies such as warning labels and beverage taxes. Her research uses randomized trials, quasi-experiments, and simulation modeling to evaluate how nutrition policies affect diet, the food supply,…
Mary Kathryn Poole is a PhD Candidate in Public Health Nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Mary Kathryn’s research interests focus on improving the implementation of evidence-based practices for child nutrition in the US. Her work is informed by her background of designing and implementing community-based nutrition programs and working in program evaluation. Mary Kathryn received her MPH at Tulane University School of Public Health and…
Matt is a PhD student in the Population Health Sciences program at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in the Department of Nutrition. His research is focused on evaluating existing and potential nutrition policies and program that are poised to reduce cardiometabolic disease, with a particular emphasis on applying causal inference and simulation based methods. He is currently supporting projects related to the advertising and sales of…
Trained in social epidemiology and planned behavior change, my research focuses on identifying successful, efficient, and cost-effective strategies to modify children’s environments to make the healthiest choice the easiest choice and to help children form healthy habits for life. I do this through conducting both intervention studies and epidemiological studies. My work is grounded in social ecological theory and the investigation of how children’s environments can be feasibly changed to promote healthy eating habits…
Emma Anderson is an MPH-65 student in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests focus on methods of promoting equitable access to nutritious food and reducing diet-related health disparities at the population level. Prior to attending Harvard Chan, she worked as a clinical research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital supporting clinical research projects related to nutrition and public health.
Dr. Rimm is a Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, and is also affiliated with the Channing Laboratory at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rimm is an internationally recognized nutrition expert and health communicator. His pioneering research…
Dr. Sara Bleich is a Professor of Public Health Policy within the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Bleich obtained her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University, and her B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University. Dr. Bleich’s research focuses on policy-based methods to reduce obesity on a population level through reduction of caloric intake, addressment of environmental factors that…
Dr. Block is a general internal medicine physician with training in epidemiology and population health. Working with interdisciplinary teams, his research follows two tracks (1) examining the geographic influences on the obesity epidemic and (2) intervening in multiple settings to promote weight loss and overall wellness, especially at the environmental level. Dr. Block has completed studies on the geographic distribution of food establishments. He has explored whether proximity to food…
