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
The Ohio State University	RD	2025	Dietetic Internship

Juliana Cohen, ScD, ScM, RD, is an Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Center for Health Innovation, Research, and Policy at Merrimack College. Dr. Cohen is an internationally recognized expert on school nutrition policies and interventions. Her research centers on the identification, evaluation, and dissemination of effective school nutrition policies and initiatives to address diet-related disparities and reduce the risk of obesity among children. Her school-based research is currently cited on the United States Department of Agriculture’s websites, has been used by the U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) to develop recommendations for school meal policies, and was cited as evidence in the United States Department of Agriculture’s proposed rules for the updated school meal standards. Dr. Cohen has received multiple federal and foundation grants, including from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Healthy Eating Research (HER).

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