Vanessa Oddo
Associate Professor
Kinesiology and Nutrition
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Building & Room:
525 AHSB
Address:
1919 W. Taylor St.
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About
Dr. Oddo's research examines the social determinants of nutrition-related health, with a focus on employment conditions, food and nutrition insecurity, and their intersections with chronic disease risk. Her work bridges domestic and global public health, using big data, natural experiments, and policy evaluation methods to understand how structural conditions shape dietary and metabolic outcomes. She currently serves as Co-Investigator on multiple NIH-funded studies and the Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded evaluation of U.S. food policies, which includes large-scale evaluations of state and municipal nutrition policies, sweetened beverage taxation, and SNAP incentive programs.
Selected Grants
NIH-NIMHD: R00MD012807, Precarious Employment as a Determinant of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk, PI
Bloomberg Philanthropies, Evaluation of U.S. Food Policies, Co-I
University of Illinois Cancer Center, American Cancer Society, Elucidating precarious employment and stress-related health disparities, PI
Selected Publications
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Notable Honors
2023, E. Kika De La Garza Fellow, U.S. Department of Agriculture
2023, Humanitarian of the Year, UIC College of Applied Health Sciences
Education
PhD, Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2017
MPH, Public Health Nutrition, Tufts University, 2011
BA, Neuroscience, Smith College, 2005