Areas of Expertise
Food access and nutrition security
Healthy food retail and charitable food system
Federal food assistance programs
Food Story
Professionally, Anderson Steeves started her research career working on behavioral weight loss intervention trials, but quickly grew frustrated by the lack of ability to support people in maintaining weight loss long term. She shifted her focus to obesity prevention and began looking at upstream factors related to dietary choices such as food access, food security, federal food program usage and social determinants of health. Personally, she spends much of her free time trying to convince her three children to eat more fruits and vegetables!
Academic History
Ph.D., Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2015
M.S., Public Health Nutrition, University of Tennessee, 2007
B.S., Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Dayton, 2005
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist