Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	ScD	2012	Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	ScM	2007	Society, Human Development, and Health

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.

• Pediatric Nutrition
• Childhood Obesity Prevention
• School-Based Interventions
• Nutrition Policies
• Nutrition Equity
• Health Disparities
• Behavioral Economics