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Roni A. Neff, PhD

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  • Assistant Professor

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Contact Information

615 N. Wolfe Street
Room W7010
Baltimore, Maryland 21205

410-614-6027

Center for a Livable Future website
See my research at ResearchGate

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Education

PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2006
ScM, Harvard School of Public Health, 1997

Overview

My research focuses on understanding and changing food systems, particularly promoting food system environmental sustainability and addressing food system inequities in light of complex environmental and social realities. I perform policy, communications, and consumer behavior research focused mainly in three core areas: 1) wasted food; 2) protein consumption; and 3) urban food system resilience to climate change and other threats. I am also interested in food system worker health & safety. I engage with broader food system issues in my role as director of the Food System Environmental Sustainability and Public Health program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF).

I co-direct the school's MPH Concentration in Food Systems & Public Health, and our Certificate Program in Food Systems & Public Health. I edited the first textbook on the US food system, Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, Equity (Wiley-Jossey Bass, 2014, 576 pgs). I teach the courses, Baltimore Food Systems: A Case Study in Urban Food Environments and Food System Sustainability Practicum. I also manage CLF research programs including the CLF-Lerner Fellowships for doctoral students and directed research.

Honors and Awards

Excellence in teaching, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2010 - 2017

Delta Omega Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum – Second Place, for Food System Certificate (co-leader of certificate), 2017

Faculty Excellence in Service Learning Award, SOURCE, JHSPH 2014

Champion of the Month, May 2014, SOURCE, JHSPH

SOURCE Service Learning Faculty Fellow 2012-13

Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, Alpha Chapter

Victor P. Raymond Award in Health Policy

  • Food system
  • food waste
  • meat
  • climate change
  • agriculture
  • policy
  • communication
  • sustainability
  • health disparities
  • Baltimore
  •  history
  • occupational injury and illness
  • resilience.

Below are a few of my recent publications.

  • Spiker M, Hiza HA, Siddiqi S, Neff RA. Wasted Food, Wasted Nutrients: Nutrient loss from wasted food in the US and comparison to gaps in dietary intake. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Available online May 15, 2017.
  • Biehl E, Buzogany S, Huang A, Chodor G, Neff RA. Baltimore Food System Resilience Advisory Report. August, 2017. http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/_pdf/projects/resilience/Baltimore-Resilience-Report.pdf
  • Neff RA, Laestadius L, DiMauro S, Palmer A. 2017. Interviewing Baltimore Older Adults About Food System Change: Oral History as a Teaching Tool. Metropolitan Universities Journal. 28:1.
  • Neff RA, Vandevijvere S, Kanter R. 2015. Reducing waste and losses of food while improving public health in the U.S. and globally. Health Affairs. 34:11. 1821-1829.
  • Neff, RA. [Editor]. Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Public Health, Environment, Equity. San Francisco: Wiley-Jossey Bass, 2014. 576 pages. (Textbook) Authored chapters: Neff RA, Lawrence RS. Introduction. Neff RA, Palmer AM, McKenzie S, Lawrence RS. The Food System and Health Inequities. Truant P, Neff RA. Food Environments.

See all publications by Roni A. Neff

  • Protein consumption, environment and public health
  • Wasted Food

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