Tatiana Andreyeva, PhD
Tatiana (Tania) Andreyeva is Director of Economic Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Dr. Andreyeva completed her PhD at the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica. Before joining the Rudd Center, Tatiana worked at RAND on a variety of health care issues, including health promotion, retirement behavior, health care systems, obesity, and mental health. Her current work focuses on the determinants of access to healthy foods and the role of economic incentives in food choices and diet, including food prices/taxes, federal assistance and nutrition programs (particularly WIC and CACFP). Tatiana’s research also looks at the economic implications of weight discrimination and weight stigma among youth, and cross-country comparisons of health and health behaviors. Prior to her PhD training, Tania worked on a variety of technical assistance projects with the World Bank, USAID and EU TACIS in Ukraine.