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…
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…
Scott is a third-year doctoral student studying public health nutrition under the Population Health Sciences program at Harvard. His research focuses primarily on improving the accessibility, quality, and sustainability of nutrition assistance programs, with a particular focus on school-based meals. Prior to coming to Harvard, Scott spent five years serving as Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives for Project Bread, where his responsibilities included identifying, implementing, and measuring the impact and…
