Roni Neff

Roni Neff, Ph.D., S.M., is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s departments of Environmental Health & Engineering and Health Policy & Management. She is also Senior Advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, an academic center focused on food systems and public health. She co-directs the RECIPES national food waste research network supported by the National Science Foundation. Driven by concern about food security, justice, and food’s outsized impact on planetary health, her research focuses primarily on wasted food and on food system resilience to disasters. She is working on the 2^nd edition of her widely-used textbook, Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, Equity. Dr. Neff co-leads a PhD track in Environmental Sustainability Resilience and Health, and food systems MPH concentration and certificate programs. She lectures widely, has served in many advisory roles, and has been frequently quoted in the media.