Meghan O'Connell
Meghan O’Connell is a Research Associate at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Prior to coming to the Rudd Center, Meghan received degrees in social work and public health, and worked as a Research Associate at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, where she managed nutrition and physical activity related studies, as well as research on adolescent and adult smoking cessation. Meghan is interested in childhood obesity prevention and minimizing the social costs to obese children. At the Rudd Center, her research focuses on the development of food preferences and eating habits in early childhood.
