Juliana FW Cohen
Adjunct Faculty

Juliana FW Cohen

Adjunct Professor of Nutrition

Nutrition

jcohen@hsph.harvard.edu


Overview

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 Fellow2016
The Obesity Society (TOS)

Nutritional Epidemiology of Cancer Education and Career Development Fellowship2012-2015
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Donald and Sue Pritzker Nutrition and Fitness Fellowship2010-2011
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Policy and Science Fellowship2004-2005
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


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