Rudd Center Names New Director

Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity has announced researcher Marlene Schwartz as its next director following the departure of Kelly Brownell for Duke University’s Sanford School. According to a July 19, 2013, press release, Schwartz previously served as co-director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, where she studied “how children’s diets and health are influenced by home, school, and community environments,” as well as the impact of local, state and federal policies on nutrition.

“Right now, we live in a world where it is difficult for parents to feed their
children well, and people are discriminated against based on body size and
weight. This must change,” said Schwartz, whose work received support
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, and Horizon Foun-
dation. “At the Rudd Center, we are working to create a world that supports
parents’ efforts to raise nourished, healthy children, and eliminates weight
stigma and discrimination.”