UConn announced Friday a new partnership with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, a nationally recognized nonprofit that will move to downtown Hartford.
The Rudd Center was previously located at Yale University, but will move in January to Hartford’s Constitution Plaza, near UConn’s Graduate Business Learning Center. The new location will give the organization easier access to state policymakers, Rudd Center said.
The affiliation is one of the first major initiatives of UConn’s academic vision, which prioritizes health and wellness research as an integral part of the University’s mission, the school said.
Recently ranked as one of the nation’s most effective nonprofits working on nutrition policy, the Rudd Center focuses its research on obesity prevention. It  conducts research that aims to inform pressing public policy issues and its work is widely used by policy makers and health advocates.
The Rudd Center is currently anchored by four faculty members, all national experts in their fields: Marlene Schwartz, Rudd Center director; Rebecca Puhl, deputy director; Jennifer Harris, director of food marketing initiatives; and Tatiana Andreyeva, director of economic initiatives.
