Research

My research aims to identify the causal effects of existing and potential social policies on obesity and cardiometabolic disease risk factors, with the overall goal of reducing health disparities and improving population health. Using a diverse set of causal inference, econometrics, and decision science methods, I am working to understand how dietary behaviors such as the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) propagate and spread through social networks, how SSB tax-attributable beverage advertising changes moderate treatment effects, and how microsimulations of proposed policies aimed at reducing obesity can more accurately reflect real-world implementation and target populations. I am primarily advised by Dr. Erica Kenney in the Harvard T.H. Chan School Department of Nutrition, and collaborate with others in Health Policy and Management, Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Biostatistics, as well as with researchers at the Prevention Research Center.

Publications

See my curriculum vitae for an updated listing of my publications, presentations, and additional research work.