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New Balance Chair

Christina D. Economos, PhD, New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition serves in several roles as an Assistant Professor of Nutrition at Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Associate Director, John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition, and a Research Scientist at the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.

Affiliated Faculty

Sara C. Folta, PhD, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

Jeanne P. Goldberg, PhD, RD, Professor of Nutrition, is Director of the Center on Nutrition Communication and the Graduate Program in Nutrition Communication at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Raymond R. Hyatt, Jr., PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Public Health and Family Medicine department of the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Aviva Must, PhD is Dean of Academic Affairs in the Office of Public Health and Professional Degree Programs for the School of Medicine, a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Tufts University School of Medicine and a Scientist in the Nutritional Epidemiology Program at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University.

Miriam E. Nelson, PhD is Director of the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition and an Associate Professor of Nutrition at Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

 

Jennifer M. Sacheck, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

New Balance Fellows

Erin Hennessy, MS, MPH
Ms. Hennessy holds Masters degrees in both Nutrition Communication and Public Health, as well as a certificate in Community Health and is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

Sonya Irish-Hauser, MS
Ms. Irish has a Masters degree in Nutrition Communication and is a Doctoral Candidate in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

Staff

Julia Bloom, MPH, is the Project Manager for the CHANGE project.

Valerie Clark , MS, RD is an Assistant Researcher on several Children in Balance research studies.

Alia Hastings, MPH is the Research Assistant for The CHANGE Study..

Bridgid Junot , MPH, is the Research Assistant for The Balance Project.

Elizabeth Nahar, MSW, MBA, is the Program Director of the Children in Balance initiative.

Sarah Sliwa, BA, is the Program Assistant for Children in Balance and a MS candidate at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

 

 

 

An initiative of the John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity Prevention at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

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