My Fulbright research aims to understand whether food and nutrition policies are being designed to adequately support their implementation and, ultimately, to promote compliance. As a health policy expert, my goal is to improve the implementation and sustainability of these policies, which can help to reduce diet-related chronic illness and death.
Dr Denise D. Payán is an Associate Professor at the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). She is a health policy researcher who examines factors that contribute to nutrition policy adoption and implementation, and evaluates interventions to address obesity and diet-related health disparities. As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Payán will collaborate with food governance experts at the University of Sydney to investigate how Australia’s nutrition policies are designed to support implementation.