Participation in the US Department of Agriculture's Summer Meal Programs: 2019-2021.
Burkholder K, Bennett BL, McKee SL, Cohen JFW, Xu R, Schwartz MB.
J Sch Health. 2024 Jan 23. PMID: 38258650
Dr. Juliana Cohen is an Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Nutrition and Public Health at Merrimack College. Dr. Cohen has broad research interests in pediatric nutrition, including school-based interventions, child/adolescent health and development, health disparities, and nutrition policies. Her research centers on the identification, evaluation, and dissemination of effective nutrition policies and initiatives to promote nutrition equity and reduce the risk of obesity among children. Dr. Cohen has multiple grants to examine school-based policies and interventions to improve children’s school meal participation and consumption both in the United States and internationally, including Universal Free School Meal (UFSM) policies, stronger school nutrition standards, and competitive food standards for snacks and beverages sold in schools. Dr. Cohen is also Director of the NOURISH Lab. Previously she was an ORISE Policy and Science fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity.
ScM, 2007, Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
ScD, 2012, Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Obesity Society Fellow
The Obesity Society (TOS)
Nutritional Epidemiology of Cancer Education and Career Development Fellowship
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Donald and Sue Pritzker Nutrition and Fitness Fellowship
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Policy and Science Fellowship
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Burkholder K, Bennett BL, McKee SL, Cohen JFW, Xu R, Schwartz MB.
J Sch Health. 2024 Jan 23. PMID: 38258650
Chapman LE, Richardson SA, Rimm EB, Gortmaker SL, Lee MM, Cohen JFW.
J Acad Nutr Diet. 2024 Mar. 124(3):346-357.e2. PMID: 37858673
Cohen JFW, Verguet S, Giyose BB, Bundy D.
Lancet. 2023 09 09. 402(10405):831-833. PMID: 37562420
Wang L, Cohen JF, Maroney M, Cudhea F, Hill A, Schwartz C, Lurie P, Mozaffarian D.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 09. 118(3):605-613. PMID: 37527964
Cohen JF, Richardson S, March WW, Gosliner W, Hauser R.
Environ Res. 2023 11 01. 236(Pt 1):116632. PMID: 37442262
Tsai MM, Olarte DA, Hager ER, Cohen JFW, Turner L.
J Sch Health. 2024 Apr. 94(4):366-373. PMID: 37395014
Olarte DA, Tsai MM, Chapman L, Hager ER, Cohen JFW.
Nutrients. 2023 Jun 29. 15(13). PMID: 37447277
Bennett BL, Cohen JFW, Andreyeva T, Esposito J, Burkholder K, Chafouleas SM, Schwartz MB.
AJPM Focus. 2023 Dec. 2(4):100124. PMID: 37790948
Yan Z, Peacock J, Cohen JFW, Kurdziel L, Benes S, Oh S, Bowling A.
Nutrients. 2023 Mar 04. 15(5). PMID: 36904282
Hecht AA, Olarte DA, McLoughlin GM, Cohen JFW.
J Acad Nutr Diet. 2023 07. 123(7):1075-1096.e1. PMID: 36863526
With the end of pandemic-era federal support that provided free school breakfasts and lunches for all, experts worry that kids who continue to need free meals will face increasing stigma.
Elementary school children in Anchorage, Alaska, will now have additional time for lunch and recess thanks to a policy change informed by a Harvard Chan School researcher.
A pilot program in the Anchorage School District to enhance children’s wellness by giving them more time for eating and recess has largely been successful, according to administrators.
School lunch programs offer an array of benefits for children. They provide low-cost nutritious food, reduce hunger, and help children perform to the best of their abilities in the classroom. But experts say there is more work to…
When school districts cut lunch to 20 minutes or less to accommodate more instruction time, students' nutrition may suffer.