Dr. Roni Neff is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health & Engineering and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. She also directs CLF’s Food System Sustainability and Public Health program. She obtained a BA from Brown University, a Masters in Health and Social Behavior from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a PhD in Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School. Before joining the tenure track, she worked in public health practice and policy for over 15 years, focusing on diverse topics from reproductive health and HIV/AIDS to lead poisoning prevention to environmental and occupational health policy and, finally, food systems. Her research is driven by concern about global environmental challenges, including the opportunity for mitigation through food system interventions addressing waste and consumption patterns, the need to adapt food systems to improve resilience to climate change and other threats, and the need for attention to equity issues throughout.
Dr. Julia A. Wolfson is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a mixed-methods public health policy researcher whose work primarily focuses on health and social policies and programs related to promoting healthy and environmentally sustainable food and beverage choices, diet quality, food security, and diet-related health. She is particularly interested in the role of cooking for healthy eating, community cooking and nutrition education, nutrition assistance policies, and the relationship between different food environments
(neighborhood, work, school, information, or messaging) and food choices and health outcomes, particularly among vulnerable populations at high risk for diet-related diseases.
