Alignment Of US School Lunches With The EAT-Lancet Healthy Reference Diet's Standards For Planetary Health.
Poole MK, Musicus AA, Kenney EL.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Dec. 39(12):2144-2152. PMID: 33284707
Director of PhD Program in Public Health Nutrition
Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director of MPH Program in Nutrition
Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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 and less screen time. This has resulted in work on developing valid, easy-to-use measures of dietary intake, feeding behaviors, nutrition policies, and the nutrition environment in child care and school settings; conducting and evaluating randomized, controlled trials of school- and afterschool-based interventions; and analyzing national datasets to identify important determinants of nutrition behaviors and obesity risk for children. At the Prevention Research Center, I collaborate with colleagues and community partners to identify and evaluate usable strategies for increasing drinking water access and reducing intake of sugary drinks in school, afterschool, and child care settings. With the Childhood Obesity Intervention Cost Effectiveness Study (CHOICES) team, I also study the cost-effectiveness of different policy strategies to prevent childhood obesity in early care and education settings. As a a faculty member with the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED), I work with STRIPED trainees to investigate a different dimension of childhood obesity - weight-related discrimination and stigma, and how to ensure that public health efforts to promote healthy eating, physical activity, and healthy weight do not have unintended harmful consequences.
Current projects include a natural experimental evaluation of recent changes to the Child and Adult Care Food Program meal patterns in family child care settings; an implementation science investigation into how policies to promote healthy eating in child care settings nationwide are actually translated; a qualitative investigation of weight discrimination in school settings; and developing measures of exposure to food advertising on mobile devices.
Poole MK, Musicus AA, Kenney EL.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Dec. 39(12):2144-2152. PMID: 33284707
Bauer KW, Chriqui JF, Andreyeva T, Kenney EL, Stage VC, Dev D, Lessard L, Cotwright CJ, Tovar A.
Am J Public Health. 2021 01. 111(1):116-120. PMID: 33211589
Kenney EL, Bleich S, Gortmaker S.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Oct. 39(10):1839. PMID: 33017242
Poole MK, Cradock AL, Kenney EL.
Nutrients. 2020 Sep 15. 12(9). PMID: 32942588
Kenney EL, Barrett JL, Bleich SN, Ward ZJ, Cradock AL, Gortmaker SL.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Jul. 39(7):1122-1129. PMID: 32634356
Poole MK, Cradock AL, Kenney EL.
Prev Chronic Dis. 2020 06 18. 17:E44. PMID: 32553072
Vercammen KA, Frelier JM, Poole MK, Kenney EL.
J Public Health (Oxf). 2020 05 26. 42(2):362-373. PMID: 32090258
Kenney EL, Poole MK, Cory H, Cradock AL.
Public Health Nutr. 2020 08. 23(11):2016-2023. PMID: 32301413
Dunn CG, Kenney E, Fleischhacker SE, Bleich SN.
N Engl J Med. 2020 Apr 30. 382(18):e40. PMID: 32227759
Kenney EL, Daly JG, Lee RM, Mozaffarian RS, Walsh K, Carter J, Gortmaker SL.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 12 20. 17(1). PMID: 31861778
With schools and child care centers shuttered across the U.S. because of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children who rely on school meals may face food insecurity, according to a March 30, 2020 Perspective piece in the New…
Childhood obesity rates continue to rise in the U.S., despite some modest progress toward getting kids to eat healthier school lunches and consume fewer sugary drinks.