Alexandra Ross

Dr. Alexandra Ross is interested in policy-level interventions to improve food accessibility, particularly as it relates to food pricing and nutrition assistance programs. Her goal is to do research that will develop and evaluate programmatic strategies to improve the availability, financial accessibility, and desirability of foods to improve diet quality and subsequent chronic disease risk. Her previous work focuses on changes in the retail food environment, emphasizing food pricing, nutrient regulations, and international policy evaluations in the United States and South Africa.

As part of her work as an NIH NCI cancer prevention fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she aims to further evaluate food environment policies such as labeling interventions, SNAP, and WIC and their potential impact on diet-related disease and cancer prevention. Dr. Ross earned her PhD in Nutrition Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and an MHS in Social Factors in Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.