Food policy – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

September 6, 2019November 6, 2023

Sweetening the deal: Taxing a sweetened beverage by amount of sugar it contains could lead to health & economic gains

Anna Grummon, PhD, a Harvard Bell Fellow in the 2019-2021 cohort, is among the authors of an analysis published in the journal Science. The researchers conclude that health and economic gains could be better realized by taxing the sugar content of those beverages, rather than taxing the amount of liquid in the drinks. Learn more in this news post by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

June 16, 2016February 26, 2024

Evidence to Policy: Philly becomes 1st major U.S. city to tax sodas & other sweetened beverages

The findings of an analysis led by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Steven Gortmaker, PhD, that projected the health impacts of a soda tax were used to sway Philadelphia’s City Council to take this historic step.

March 18, 2014March 5, 2024

RWJF Fellow Christina Roberto co-authors paper on multipronged approach to combat obesity

Christina Roberto, PhD, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society scholar at the Harvard Pop Center, has co-authored a study which explores a multipronged approach to addressing obesity.

March 7, 2014October 23, 2023

RWJF Scholar Christina Roberto co-authors study on impact of ‘food addiction’ on food policy

Pop Center RWJF Health & Society Scholar Christina Roberto, PhD, has co-authored a recently published paper titled “The Impact of ‘Food Addiction’ on Food Policy” that examines how lessons learned from alcohol and tobacco addiction could inform protective policies relating to unhealthy food.