Christina A. Roberto, PhD is the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professor of Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also Director of Penn’s Center for Food and Nutrition Policy, which brings together researchers across Penn and CHOP to develop innovative policy solutions to the world’s most urgent food system challenges. Dr. Roberto works closely with policymakers, community-based organizations, companies, and institutions to generate timely research that can provide those partners with science-based guidance.
Dr. Roberto earned a joint-PhD at Yale University in clinical psychology and chronic disease epidemiology. She completed her clinical internship at the Yale School of Medicine and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she was also faculty before coming to Penn. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader, an elected member of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, recipient of the Sarah Samuels Memorial Award from the Food and Nutrition Section of the American Public Health Association, The Thomas A. Wadden Award for Distinguished Mentorship from the Obesity Society, and the Penn Medicine William Osler Patient Oriented Research Award.
