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Jen Stephenson, MSPH (she/her/hers)

Research Associate
Food and Nutrition Board, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Jennifer Stephenson, MSPH, is a Research Associate with the Food and Nutrition Board at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). At NASEM, she has worked with colleagues and multiple interdisciplinary experts on numerous consensus reports, including topics on infant and complementary feeding, seafood consumption and early child development, and alcohol consumption and health outcomes. Prior to joining NASEM, she worked with the B’more Healthy Food Systems food environment research group at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she focused on a pilot study aimed at linking corner stores located in Healthy Food Priority Areas to wholesalers in order to assess the feasiblity of stocking healthier foods through the use of the Baltimore Urban food Distribution mobile application in Baltimore City, Maryland. During the pandemic, she served as an AmeriCorps VISTA in West Texas with the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, collaborating with local food coalitions to address both food insecurity among college students and the summer meal gap that impacts food insecurity among children. She has also worked in Upstate South Carolina focusing on community based participatory research to assess policy, system, and environmental changes in nutrition and physical activity policies in CACFP-eligible early childhood education centers. She earned her MSPH in Human Nutrition and Certificate in Food Systems, the Environment, and Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BS in Health Sciences from Furman University.

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