Juliana Cohen, ScD, ScM, RD, is an Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Center for Health Innovation, Research, and Policy at Merrimack College. Dr. Cohen is an internationally recognized expert on school nutrition policies and interventions, and currently co-chairs the Translation and Interpretation Advisory Group for the United Nations World Food Programme’s Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition. Dr. Cohen has over two decades of experience collaborating with diverse school districts and policymakers across the U.S. and internationally to evaluate effective school nutrition policies and initiatives to improve children's health and academic outcomes. Her school-based research is currently cited on the United States Department of Agriculture’s websites, has been used by the U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) to develop recommendations for school meal policies, and was cited as evidence in the United States Department of Agriculture’s proposed rules for the updated school meal standards. Dr. Cohen has received multiple federal and foundation grants, including from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Healthy Eating Research (HER).