Advertising and Stocking at Small Retailers: A Sweetened Beverage Excise Tax in Philadelphia.
Lee MM, Gibson LA, Hua SV, Lowery CM, Paul M, Roberto CA, Lawman HG, Bleich SN, Mitra N, Kenney EL.
Am J Prev Med. 2023 Sep 27. PMID: 37774991
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Dr. Sara Bleich is the inaugural Vice Provost for Special Projects at Harvard University, director of the social sciences program and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. With more than 180 peer-reviewed publications, she is a policy expert and researcher who specializes in diet-related diseases, food insecurity, and racial inequality. Prior to this, Dr. Bleich served in the Biden Administration as the Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service and as the Senior Advisor for COVID-19 in the Office of the Secretary at USDA. As a White House Fellow during the Obama Administration, she worked at USDA as a Senior Policy Adviser for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services and on First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative. Dr. Bleich was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 and holds a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and a PhD in health policy from Harvard University.
Lee MM, Gibson LA, Hua SV, Lowery CM, Paul M, Roberto CA, Lawman HG, Bleich SN, Mitra N, Kenney EL.
Am J Prev Med. 2023 Sep 27. PMID: 37774991
Levi R, Bleich SN, Seligman HK.
Diabetes Care. 2023 09 01. 46(9):1599-1608. PMID: 37354336
Dupuis R, Block JP, Barrett JL, Long MW, Petimar J, Ward ZJ, Kenney EL, Musicus AA, Cannuscio CC, Williams DR, Bleich SN, Gortmaker SL.
Am J Prev Med. 2023 Aug 14. PMID: 37586572
Bleich SN, Dupuis R, Seligman HK.
JAMA Health Forum. 2023 08 04. 4(8):e233149. PMID: 37561480
Bleich SN, Fiechtner L, Kenney EL.
JAMA Health Forum. 2023 04 07. 4(4):e231472. PMID: 37079316
Bleich SN.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Aug. 118(2):349-351. PMID: 36990224
Bleich SN, Fleischhacker SE, Dean S.
J Acad Nutr Diet. 2023 07. 123(7):991-996. PMID: 36958624
Zaltz DA, Lee DL, Woodward-Lopez G, Ritchie LD, Bleich SN, Benjamin-Neelon SE.
Am J Prev Med. 2023 07. 65(1):67-73. PMID: 36764834
Headrick G, Ruth A, White SA, Ellison C, Seligman H, Bleich SN, Moran AJ.
Prev Med Rep. 2023 Feb. 31:102077. PMID: 36483579
Lynch-Smith M, Bleich SN, Sommers BD.
JAMA Health Forum. 2022 Nov 04. 3(11):e224914. PMID: 36355354
Two faculty members from Harvard Chan School—Sara Bleich and Christian Happi—have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Ten experts recently told the New York Times which false ideas about nutrition they would like to dispel. One of those experts—Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Sara Bleich—said that she’d like to dispel the myth that…
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