The Public Health Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Wenhui Feng to our group of esteemed faculty this Fall! Dr. Feng comes to us from Tufts University with a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from University at Albany, State University of New York.

Dr. Feng is a public policy researcher focused on food and health policies. Her research employs policy analysis methods to examine various health policies. She primarily focuses on obesity-related policies, including menu labeling and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Her current work evaluates the role that dollar stores play in the food retail landscape, the household-level food acquisition and dietary quality, administrative burden of social safety-net programs, and regulatory policy making.

Dr. Feng is also an associate editor of Frontiers in Nutrition, Food Policy and Economics. We are very excited to have such an important member of the Public Health community joining our department. Please help us in making her feel like a part of the URI community!