Jennifer Massa, ScD is a research scientist in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of research at the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative. Dr. Massa’s research focuses on three primary areas: the development and evaluation of teaching kitchen interventions to improve cooking skills, lifestyle behaviors, and cardiometabolic outcomes; the creation of standardized curricula and outcome measures to strengthen culinary medicine research; and the translation of food-as-medicine models to diverse populations in the U.S. and globally. She is an alumna of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she earned her Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in Epidemiology and Nutrition, and completed postdoctoral training in neuroepidemiology. Dr. Massa has led multi-site randomized controlled trials, developed youth and multilingual teaching kitchen curricula, and serves on national advisory groups including the NIH Coalition for Whole Person Health Research, the White House Nutrition Convening planning committee, and the Menus of Change Scientific Advisory Council. (Cambridge, MA)