Jennifer Harris, PhD

Dr. Jennifer Harris is a Senior Research Advisor at the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, research consultant, and leading international expert on the extent and health impact of food-related marketing. Her multi-disciplinary research approach incorporates methods from experimental psychology, marketing, communications, public health, nutrition and economics. Her current research examines emerging issues in food marketing to youth and their parents, including targeted marketing to Black and Hispanic youth and digital food marketing to children and adolescents. Dr. Harris received her M.B.A. in Marketing from The Wharton School. She was a business executive and consultant in consumer marketing for eighteen years before completing her PhD in Social Psychology at Yale University and establishing the Rudd Center research group that studies food marketing to children.