About Me

I am currently a Research Scientist in Sustainable Food Systems Modeling at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. I previously graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Health Behavior Research (Public Health) from the University of Southern California, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Yale School of Public Health. 

I am broadly interested in food systems, health and food policy, climate change, sustainable behaviors, and environmental justice. My current work examines how food environments and policies can be transformed to encourage eating behaviors that both improve chronic disease outcomes and help mitigate climate change and its subsequent effects on human health (i.e., co-benefits). 

My overarching research goal as a public health scientist and advocate is to contribute to the permanent development of healthy, equitable, and environmentally sustainable food systems for all.