Focus Areas
The Center for Food and Nutrition Policy generates evidence to inform food and nutrition policies that improve health. Our focus areas highlight policy opportunities that can encourage healthier diets and prevent nutrition-related chronic diseases.
Taxes & Subsidies
Our research examines fiscal strategies to improve eating habits such as sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and healthy food subsidies.
Retail & Marketing
We explore how interventions in grocery stores, restaurants, and cafeterias can promote healthy choices and how food marketing shapes what we eat.
Food Labeling
We study policies related to front-of-package labeling, the nutrition facts label, restaurant menu labeling, and ingredient lists.
Product & Distribution
We examine how food is developed, processed, transported, and stocked, and the impact those systems have on availability, affordability, and nutritional quality.
Food & Water Insecurity
Our work investigates the impacts of limited or uncertain access to nutritious food and clean water, with attention to structural causes, health implications, and policy responses.
Eating Disorders & Addiction
We study how food environments and marketing practices contribute to eating disorders and food addiction, as well as how to diagnose eating problems. We also do research to understand people’s experiences taking GLP-1 receptor agonist medications.
