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New study by Marie A. Bragg, PhD sheds light on how advertisers are seeking to take advantage of new avenues to market their wares to children: 90% of YouTube videos featuring food/drinks showed unhealthy branded items such as fast food. NYULMCPopHealth Leonia nyxz cnn.com/2020/10/26/hea…

A new study by Marie A. Bragg, PhD finds child influencers on YouTube integrate junk food & soda into their content, covertly marketing these products to fellow kids. "This is basically a dream for advertisers," says Dr. Bragg nyti.ms/37PU4Eb The New York Times JournalofPediatrics

Social Inequities Explain Racial Gaps in Pandemic, Studies Find nytimes.com/2020/12/09/hea…

In our new study led by Pasquale Rummo w/Marie A. Bragg, PhD, Christina A. Roberto & Alyssa Moran, we tested healthy default bevs & restrictions on unhealthy bevs on kids' menus—they didn't sig. reduce bev calories ordered, but real-world evals are needed Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Come join the PEACH lab UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy! We are currently hiring a project coordinator: peachlab.org/job-opportunit… Food policy friends-please share! Shu Wen Ng, PhD Lindsey Smith Taillie @amusicus413 Anna Grummon John Cawley Pasquale Rummo Marie A. Bragg, PhD Jason Block Eric Rimm

New work w/ my RIPHI colleagues showing SNAP $ incentives are effective in MPMs. 50% discounts much preferred to 1:1 matching! IJBNPA

Compelling 1st look at online SNAP purchasing trends using state data 👏

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Tomorrow, joined by Stacey Abrams, I will sign legislation establishing early voting. While states across our nation turn back the clock to Jim Crow-era voter suppression laws, New Jersey will expand access to the ballot box. nytimes.com/2021/03/29/nyr…

To our resilient transgender community: 💙We see you 🤍We support you 💕We will always fight alongside you On #TransDayOfVisibility and EVERY DAY.

New Annual Reviews of Public Health paper w/ Jim Krieger Dr. Sara Bleich & StephanieScarmo discusses options for📉#sugarydrink exposure & intake. Integrated policy approach that adapts to changing market, evolving social, political, public health needs & emerging science is critical.

Ultra-processed foods: a global threat to public health. 👇Check out our new fact sheet!👇 globalfoodresearchprogram.web.unc.edu/wp-content/upl… Complete w/198 references about why ultra-processed is fueling diet-related disease. Spanish + Portuguese translations forthcoming!

🆕study The Lancet Planetary Health shows 🇿🇦ZA’s sugar-density sugary drink tax⬇️sugar from beverages by 51% (11g sugar/capita/day) vs what it would have been w/out Health Promotion Levy! doi.org/10.1016/S2542-… Wits_News Global Food Research Program at UNC-Chapel Hill @uncpopcenter.bsky.social UNC Department of Nutrition UWC

Thanks to Nutrients MDPI for publishing the first Toddler Diet Quality Index, mapped to the 2020-2025 #DietaryGuidelines Dept. of Agriculture. Use it to describe the diet quality of young children in the U.S. Emily Duffy @HarnackLisa mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/6…

BIPOC academics finishing your PhD soon &👀4 postdoc? Consider this mechanism @UNCResearch! If you do food/nutrition policy work Global Food Research Program at UNC-Chapel Hill will provide additional funding support! globalfoodresearchprogram.org/carolina-postd… Pls help spread word!!

"Calorie information in itself can only do so much in terms of moving the needle." Pasquale Rummo Brian Elbel Andrew Freeman, MD tctmd.com/news/slight-sh…