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Center & Institute Affiliations
Patti Truant Anderson, MPH, PhD is an expert in food systems and public health communication. She focuses on the impacts of food production practices & opportunities to advance equitable food systems.
Research Interests
food systems, sustainability, public health communication, risk sciences, advocacy, food production, environmental justice, planetary health
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Experiences & Accomplishments
Patti Truant Anderson is an associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management, and a senior program officer at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). At CLF, she plays a central role in developing, implementing, and evaluating activities that engage the public health field in agriculture and food systems policy at domestic and global levels.
Dr. Anderson completed her public health training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her dissertation research focused on risk communication and policy issues surrounding bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogenic chemical which became widely known due to its former presence in baby bottles. She is a public health practitioner with expertise in effective public health communication, with a particular focus on food systems, risk, and environmental health. Her past experience includes work in government, the non-profit sector, and research settings.
Honors & Awards
- Excellence in Teaching (AY 2023-2024; Fourth term)
- Media Interviews and Applied Public Health Communications, 308.701 (3 credits)
- Excellence in Teaching (AY 2022-2023; Fourth term)
- Media Interviews and Applied Public Health Communications, 308.701 (3 credits)
- Excellence in Teaching (AY 2020-2021; Fall Institute)
- JHSPH, Effective Presentations and News Media Interviews: Practical Skills for Public Health Practitioners
- Excellent course rating (AY 2021-2022; Summer Institute)
- JHSPH, Effective Presentations and News Media Interviews: Practical Skills for Public Health Practitioners
- Excellence in Teaching (AY 2018-2019; Third term)
- Introduction to the Risk Sciences and Public Policy
- Excellence in Teaching (AY 2016-2017; Third term)
- Introduction to the Risk Sciences and Public Policy