Creating Optimal Defaults to Prevent Obesity
October 23, 2012

BIO

Roberta Friedman, ScM, is Director of Public Policy at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. She writes and disseminates resources to educate federal, state, and local policy makers and organizations on the science supporting those food and nutrition policies that have the potential to create real change.

Prior to her work at Rudd, Ms. Friedman was the Program Director at the Massachusetts Public Health Association, where she coordinated efforts to pass legislation to improve school nutrition, and worked with several New England- and state-wide coalitions to develop obesity-prevention strategies. Ms. Friedman received her ScM in Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The Rudd Center official website, brochure

Article, VTDigger.org
Behind the Soda Wars Is an Ample Sugar Subsidy

Article, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
We Need to Know What We Ingest

Article, Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism
Public policy to prevent childhood obesity, and the role of pediatric endocrinologists

Press Release, Yale Rudd Center
Yale Rudd Center Launches Centralized Database for State and Federal Food Policy and Obesity Legislation