Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
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All things nutrition science and policy from the nation's premier graduate school of nutrition. Economics, engineering, communication, public health, and more, through the lens of food. Located in Boston at Tufts University and online everywhere!
Three Tufts University faculty — including our own Renata Micha and Dariush Mozaffarian — have been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Three Tufts University faculty — including our own Renata Micha and Dariush Mozaffarian — have been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers.
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Tufts Board Chair Jeff Moslow and Linda Moslow have funded an initiative uniting medicine and nutrition, with focus on menopause and longevity.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Tufts Board Chair Jeff Moslow and Linda Moslow have funded an initiative uniting medicine and nutrition, with focus on menopause and longevity.
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A new endowed professorship in data science has been established at the Friedman School, with Professor Elena Naumova named as the inaugural appointee:
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November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A new endowed professorship in data science has been established at the Friedman School, with Professor Elena Naumova named as the inaugural appointee:
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🌍 A new report from the Feinstein International Center, led by Friedman’s Erin Coughlan de Perez, reviews 119 Anticipatory Action frameworks in 43 countries—showing how acting before disasters can save lives: https://bit.ly/3LqTN0g
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌍 A new report from the Feinstein International Center, led by Friedman’s Erin Coughlan de Perez, reviews 119 Anticipatory Action frameworks in 43 countries—showing how acting before disasters can save lives: https://bit.ly/3LqTN0g
Leaders in nutrition, health care, and policy gathered at the Friedman School for the Food Is Medicine Summit.
➡️ Read more for key takeaways from the third annual summit: https://bit.ly/4ovJZ3y
➡️ Read more for key takeaways from the third annual summit: https://bit.ly/4ovJZ3y
Food Is Medicine: A Movement at a Tipping Point
Key takeaways from the third annual summit at Tufts, which brought together leaders in nutrition, health care, and policy from across the U.S.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Leaders in nutrition, health care, and policy gathered at the Friedman School for the Food Is Medicine Summit.
➡️ Read more for key takeaways from the third annual summit: https://bit.ly/4ovJZ3y
➡️ Read more for key takeaways from the third annual summit: https://bit.ly/4ovJZ3y
🎉 Congratulations to Dean Christina Economos of @TuftsNutrition on her election to the National Academy of Medicine, recognizing her pioneering work in nutrition, childhood obesity prevention, and community health.
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Tufts Dean Named to National Academy of Medicine
Christina Economos, dean of the Friedman School at Tufts University and an international leader in research into children’s nutrition, health, and obesity prevention, has been named a member of the Na...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Dean Christina Economos of @TuftsNutrition on her election to the National Academy of Medicine, recognizing her pioneering work in nutrition, childhood obesity prevention, and community health.
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Even healthy diets can carry hidden costs.
New research finds that some recommended U.S. diets may have higher risk of forced labor in their food supply chains, depending on what’s on the plate. 🌍🍽️
Read more on Tufts Now: https://now.tufts.edu/2025/10/08/human-cost-healthy-eating
New research finds that some recommended U.S. diets may have higher risk of forced labor in their food supply chains, depending on what’s on the plate. 🌍🍽️
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The Human Cost of Healthy Eating
Researchers including from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University have found in a new study that some recommended U.S. diets carry higher risk of forced labor in their...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Even healthy diets can carry hidden costs.
New research finds that some recommended U.S. diets may have higher risk of forced labor in their food supply chains, depending on what’s on the plate. 🌍🍽️
Read more on Tufts Now: https://now.tufts.edu/2025/10/08/human-cost-healthy-eating
New research finds that some recommended U.S. diets may have higher risk of forced labor in their food supply chains, depending on what’s on the plate. 🌍🍽️
Read more on Tufts Now: https://now.tufts.edu/2025/10/08/human-cost-healthy-eating
🌍 Tomorrow: The 2025 EAT–Lancet Commission launches at the Stockholm Food Forum.
Friedman School's Dr. Patrick Webb joins global experts exploring how to feed a growing population within planetary limits, while centering justice and equity.
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Friedman School's Dr. Patrick Webb joins global experts exploring how to feed a growing population within planetary limits, while centering justice and equity.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🌍 Tomorrow: The 2025 EAT–Lancet Commission launches at the Stockholm Food Forum.
Friedman School's Dr. Patrick Webb joins global experts exploring how to feed a growing population within planetary limits, while centering justice and equity.
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Friedman School's Dr. Patrick Webb joins global experts exploring how to feed a growing population within planetary limits, while centering justice and equity.
🔗 : https://bit.ly/46TP3rr
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Friedman School alumnus Tong Deng Anei, N19 (MAHA) turned a childhood marked by war in Sudan into a lifelong mission of service.
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From Tufts to the U.N., he now works to ensure that communities in South Sudan are supported with dignity and data-driven humanitarian action: https://bit.ly/4nq4tdI
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From Tufts to the U.N., he now works to ensure that communities in South Sudan are supported with dignity and data-driven humanitarian action: https://bit.ly/4nq4tdI
A Survivor of War Brings Dignity to the Vulnerable
Despite educational and financial obstacles, Tong Dei Anei earned his Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance degree through the Feinstein International Center and the Friedman School of Nutrition S...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Friedman School alumnus Tong Deng Anei, N19 (MAHA) turned a childhood marked by war in Sudan into a lifelong mission of service.
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From Tufts to the U.N., he now works to ensure that communities in South Sudan are supported with dignity and data-driven humanitarian action: https://bit.ly/4nq4tdI
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From Tufts to the U.N., he now works to ensure that communities in South Sudan are supported with dignity and data-driven humanitarian action: https://bit.ly/4nq4tdI
Food allergy or food intolerance? The difference matters.
Allergies involve the immune system and can be life-threatening. Intolerances affect digestion and are uncomfortable, but not life-threatening. “Sensitivities” aren’t a medical diagnosis.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/48jumau
Allergies involve the immune system and can be life-threatening. Intolerances affect digestion and are uncomfortable, but not life-threatening. “Sensitivities” aren’t a medical diagnosis.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/48jumau
How to Tell if You Have a Food Allergy or Intolerance
Whether an immune or digestive, the cause of your diet related discomfort determines the treatment, say Tufts Friedman School experts
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September 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Food allergy or food intolerance? The difference matters.
Allergies involve the immune system and can be life-threatening. Intolerances affect digestion and are uncomfortable, but not life-threatening. “Sensitivities” aren’t a medical diagnosis.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/48jumau
Allergies involve the immune system and can be life-threatening. Intolerances affect digestion and are uncomfortable, but not life-threatening. “Sensitivities” aren’t a medical diagnosis.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/48jumau
Famines remain a global threat, from Gaza to Sudan.
New research from Friedman’s Paul Howe offers fresh tools to understand how famines form and how to prevent them, using integrated analysis and new ways to map their scale.
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New research from Friedman’s Paul Howe offers fresh tools to understand how famines form and how to prevent them, using integrated analysis and new ways to map their scale.
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New Insights for Understanding and Preventing Famines
Two new papers published by Feinstein Director Paul Howe offer insights that could improve famine prevention and response. Howe is the Irwin H. Rosenberg Profes
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September 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Famines remain a global threat, from Gaza to Sudan.
New research from Friedman’s Paul Howe offers fresh tools to understand how famines form and how to prevent them, using integrated analysis and new ways to map their scale.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3VOzlZh
New research from Friedman’s Paul Howe offers fresh tools to understand how famines form and how to prevent them, using integrated analysis and new ways to map their scale.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3VOzlZh
In the Mississippi Delta, community voices are shaping solutions to food access challenges. Through the Delta GREENS Food is Medicine Project, Tufts researchers are working to build more equitable food systems.
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Making Progress Toward Equitable Food Systems in the Mississippi Delta
A School of Medicine assistant professor highlights community members’ stories to understand and address their unique food access challenges.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
In the Mississippi Delta, community voices are shaping solutions to food access challenges. Through the Delta GREENS Food is Medicine Project, Tufts researchers are working to build more equitable food systems.
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#NewPaper in Science Advances finds that domestic fishing vessels account for the majority of port visits around the world. Comprehensive inspections at port for both foreign and domestic fishing fleets are a key deterrent for #illegalfishing.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#NewPaper in Science Advances finds that domestic fishing vessels account for the majority of port visits around the world. Comprehensive inspections at port for both foreign and domestic fishing fleets are a key deterrent for #illegalfishing.
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🚰 Can wastewater surveillance work without sewers?
A new study shows how communities without modern sanitation can still track wastewater to catch outbreaks, stopping dangerous diseases before they cross borders:
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A new study shows how communities without modern sanitation can still track wastewater to catch outbreaks, stopping dangerous diseases before they cross borders:
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Can Wastewater Surveillance Work Without Sewers?
Study shows how places without modern sanitation systems can still use wastewater to catch outbreaks before dangerous diseases travel across borders.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🚰 Can wastewater surveillance work without sewers?
A new study shows how communities without modern sanitation can still track wastewater to catch outbreaks, stopping dangerous diseases before they cross borders:
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A new study shows how communities without modern sanitation can still track wastewater to catch outbreaks, stopping dangerous diseases before they cross borders:
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🛒 Dollar stores are on the rise, but are they hurting diets?
A new Tufts study finds households often balance less healthy dollar store buys with more nutritious foods elsewhere:
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A new Tufts study finds households often balance less healthy dollar store buys with more nutritious foods elsewhere:
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Dollar Stores’ Food Options May Not Be Hurting American Diets Overall
Analysis shows that while less healthy foods are staples of discount chains, households are compensating with healthier purchases elsewhere.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🛒 Dollar stores are on the rise, but are they hurting diets?
A new Tufts study finds households often balance less healthy dollar store buys with more nutritious foods elsewhere:
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A new Tufts study finds households often balance less healthy dollar store buys with more nutritious foods elsewhere:
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🌍 Future foods, healthier planet.
Tufts researchers, including Friedman School collaborators, show how biomaterials and cellular agriculture can help build sustainable food systems in a new Nature article:
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Tufts researchers, including Friedman School collaborators, show how biomaterials and cellular agriculture can help build sustainable food systems in a new Nature article:
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Maintaining a Healthy Planet With Future Foods
As the global population rises and environmental stressors pile up, the question of how to ensure food security for all grows increasingly pressing. A new study
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August 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🌍 Future foods, healthier planet.
Tufts researchers, including Friedman School collaborators, show how biomaterials and cellular agriculture can help build sustainable food systems in a new Nature article:
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Tufts researchers, including Friedman School collaborators, show how biomaterials and cellular agriculture can help build sustainable food systems in a new Nature article:
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On Point at @wbur.org with Meghna Chakrabarti had an interesting conversation this week with Dariush Mozaffarian from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social, Kate Bauer from University of Michigan, and several SNAP participants, about waiver policies restricting what one can buy. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
Should SNAP pay for junk food?
A dozen states are banning people from buying sodas and some sugary snacks using federal food assistance. The effort is part of the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign led by Secretary Robert F. Ken...
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August 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
On Point at @wbur.org with Meghna Chakrabarti had an interesting conversation this week with Dariush Mozaffarian from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social, Kate Bauer from University of Michigan, and several SNAP participants, about waiver policies restricting what one can buy. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
Don’t fear fats, just pick the right ones. 🥑🌰
Healthy fats are essential and can actually improve your health, according to senior scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Alice H. Lichtenstein:
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Healthy fats are essential and can actually improve your health, according to senior scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Alice H. Lichtenstein:
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Don’t Avoid Fats, Just Choose the Right Types
Consuming the right balance of good and bad fats can improve your health. You don’t have to avoid all fats, a Tufts nutrition expert says.
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August 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Don’t fear fats, just pick the right ones. 🥑🌰
Healthy fats are essential and can actually improve your health, according to senior scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Alice H. Lichtenstein:
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Healthy fats are essential and can actually improve your health, according to senior scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Alice H. Lichtenstein:
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As the Gulf of Maine warms faster than almost anywhere on Earth, researchers, including Friedman School alums, are working with coastal communities to protect livelihoods and adapt to shifting seas:
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The Gulf of Maine Is Warming Faster Than Pretty Much Anywhere Else
Spanning roughly 36,000 square miles, stretching from Cape Cod at the south to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia at the north, the Gulf of Maine is a vast ec
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August 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
As the Gulf of Maine warms faster than almost anywhere on Earth, researchers, including Friedman School alums, are working with coastal communities to protect livelihoods and adapt to shifting seas:
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💊 B vitamins are essential, but balance is key. A Tufts nutrition expert shares how to get enough of these eight nutrients without going overboard:
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Am I Getting Enough B Vitamins?
Make sure to take in the right amount, but not too much, of the eight key nutrients that make up the B vitamin complex, according to a Tufts nutrition expert.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
💊 B vitamins are essential, but balance is key. A Tufts nutrition expert shares how to get enough of these eight nutrients without going overboard:
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Food is a powerful form of medicine that can manage, prevent, and potentially reverse chronic diseases 🥗
Students across Tufts’ health sciences disciplines recently took part in a hands‑on culinary medicine course, built in partnership with Community Servings:
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Students across Tufts’ health sciences disciplines recently took part in a hands‑on culinary medicine course, built in partnership with Community Servings:
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Cooking in the Name of Health
A new pilot course in culinary medicine offered by Tufts University and the nonprofit Community Servings taught medical, dental, and nutrition students cooking skills and the role of nutrition in trea...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Food is a powerful form of medicine that can manage, prevent, and potentially reverse chronic diseases 🥗
Students across Tufts’ health sciences disciplines recently took part in a hands‑on culinary medicine course, built in partnership with Community Servings:
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Students across Tufts’ health sciences disciplines recently took part in a hands‑on culinary medicine course, built in partnership with Community Servings:
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🧠How can B Vitamins affect brain and heart health?
These eight nutrients can have an impact on dementia, cardiovascular disease, and more:
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These eight nutrients can have an impact on dementia, cardiovascular disease, and more:
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How B Vitamins Can Affect Brain and Heart Health
The eight nutrients in the B vitamin complex can have an impact on dementia, cardiovascular disease, and more, according to Tufts researchers.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🧠How can B Vitamins affect brain and heart health?
These eight nutrients can have an impact on dementia, cardiovascular disease, and more:
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These eight nutrients can have an impact on dementia, cardiovascular disease, and more:
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This year's #AAEA2025 coincides with launch of the UN system's #SOFI2025 report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.
Beyond diet costs and affordability, this year's report includes new work from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social and @fao.org on relative cost of different foods:
Beyond diet costs and affordability, this year's report includes new work from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social and @fao.org on relative cost of different foods:
3.4 Price inflation of nutrient-dense foods relative to other foods: Are there differences?
This report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition.
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July 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This year's #AAEA2025 coincides with launch of the UN system's #SOFI2025 report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.
Beyond diet costs and affordability, this year's report includes new work from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social and @fao.org on relative cost of different foods:
Beyond diet costs and affordability, this year's report includes new work from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social and @fao.org on relative cost of different foods:
Faculty, students & alumni from the Friedman School are sharing cutting-edge research on nutrition, food systems & equity at the AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver:
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Friedman Community Participates in the 2025 AAEA Meeting
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July 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Faculty, students & alumni from the Friedman School are sharing cutting-edge research on nutrition, food systems & equity at the AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver:
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Friedman experts separate fact from fiction on plant-based oils, also known as seed oils, including what products to choose and why you might pick oil over butter or tallow:
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Seed Oils Aren’t the Problem—How We Consume Them Is
Nutrition experts separate fact from fiction on plant-based oils, also known as seed oils, what products to choose, and why you might pick oil over butter or tallow
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July 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Friedman experts separate fact from fiction on plant-based oils, also known as seed oils, including what products to choose and why you might pick oil over butter or tallow:
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