Sujata Dixit-Joshi is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Dr. Dixit-Joshi’s research focuses on process and outcome evaluation of innovations in federal nutrition assistance programs. At Friedman, Dr. Dixit-Joshi supports several projects including THIS-WIC, Culture of Health at Head Start, and the Delta Greens Food is Medicine Project in the Mississippi Delta. She also teaches the graduate level online course: International Nutrition Programs.
As a Senior Study Director at Westat (2008-2021), she served as an Associate Project Director or Project Director on several USDA, NCI, and CDC funded studies including Family Day Care Homes Provider Study, Assessment of Barriers that Constrain the Adequacy of SNAP Allotments, Summer Food Service Program Participant Characteristics and Meal Analysis of Quality, Evaluation of Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentives, Evaluation Design and Policy Assessments for Surveillance of Early Care and Education (ECE) Settings Financed Solely by 2014 Prevention Public Funds, Nutrition Assistance in Farmers Markets: Understanding Current Operations, Multi-Disciplinary Investigations of Nutrition and Cancer, among others. As an Evaluation Lead at AED (2002-2005), she provided evaluation technical assistance to State agencies who received CDC funding from the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) to implement chronic disease prevention programs.
Dr. Dixit-Joshi received M.S and Ph.D. in International Nutrition and Food Policy from the Friedman School and MPH in International Nutrition from Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Email: sujata.dixit_joshi@tufts.edu