Hannah R Thompson

Hannah R. Thompson
Director, Nutrition Policy Institute

Hannah's research focuses on improving cardiometabolic health at the intersection of science, community, and policy. She seeks to design and evaluate scalable, cost-effective, and policy-relevant interventions to increase healthy food and beverage consumption, increase physical activity and fitness, and reduce health inequities. She focuses on youth-facing policies like mandated physical education, recess, and nutritious meals in public schools, as well as federal programmatic approaches like WIC, CACFP, and SNAP-Ed, that have tremendous potential for both short- and long-term health impact. Her research to date includes a spectrum of observational, intervention, qualitative and quantitative studies involving hundreds of thousands of youth and their families in collaboration with health care, education, public health, and non-profit organizations.

ASSOC SPECIALIST COOP EXT
Physical activity epidemiology; school health research; nutrition, community health, youth health
Brown University, BA
UC Berkeley, MPH in Public Health Nutrition
UC San Francisco, PhD in Epidemiology and Translational Science
hrthomp@ucanr.edu
Hannah R Thompson

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