{"id":4772,"date":"2025-08-14T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:25:10","slug":"uri-public-health-welcomes-new-faculty-member-dr-wenhui-feng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/2025\/08\/14\/uri-public-health-welcomes-new-faculty-member-dr-wenhui-feng\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Public Health welcomes new faculty member, Dr. Wenhui Feng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;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&nbsp;programs, and regulatory policy making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Feng is also an associate editor of&nbsp;<em>Frontiers in Nutrition, Food Policy and Economics.<\/em>&nbsp;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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}