Announcing a new collaboration with MassChallenge

by Hallie Maly | Jun 13, 2025

The Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute at the Friedman School at Tufts University and MassChallenge Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Nutrition and Health Innovation The Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute and MassChallenge have recently entered...

Investigating Nutrition and Healthy Eating with Dr. William Masters

by cpluk | Feb 3, 2022

William Masters is the former chair of the Friedman School’s Department of Food and Nutrition Policy and current professor in the Friedman School with a secondary appointment in the Department of Economics at Tufts University. As Principal Investigator for the...

Member Profile: WANDA and Tambra Raye Stevenson

by cpluk | Jul 1, 2021

Tambra Raye Stevenson, MPH is a Tufts alum and the Founder/CEO of WANDA (Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture). WANDA’s mission is focused on reaching, teaching, and advocating for women and girls of African descent in the nutrition, dietetics, and...

How can your diet help “flatten the curve”?

by cpluk | Sep 22, 2020

Friedman Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Former US Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, and Professor Simin Nikbin Meydani wrote an op-ed for CNN. They stress the importance of taking action to reduce long-term impacts beyond the measures we are taking to fight the virus...

Op-Ed: A Need For ‘Soft Power’ in Health Care

by cpluk | Sep 22, 2020

Friedman Dean Dariush Mozaffarian and and Fletcher Dean Emeritus James Stavridis co-author this opinion piece for The Hill, urging the U.S. government to strengthen its “soft power” within the healthcare system, as it has done in its military and national security...