- Associate Director
Ms. McLaughlin is a Registered Dietitian with twenty years experience in public health nutrition. She received her BA in Sociology with a concentration in Social Work from LaSalle University and her MS in Clinical Nutrition from Drexel University. The interdisciplinary nature of her educational background has carried forth throughout her professional career. She has focused her work primarily on health issues in underserved populations, particularly women and children living in poverty, pregnant teens, women in recovery, and women and children at risk of HIV/AIDS. Ms. McLaughlin has experience in the provision of direct services, program development and program evaluation, health advocacy and nutrition policy initiatives, low-literacy educational materials development, and nutrition education at the community and university levels. Her primary professional interests are in community-based participatory prevention research and program evaluation. Ms McLaughlin is co-investigator for a RWJ Healhy Eating Reserch project to evaluate the impact of changes in the WIC food package. She is also a member of the Center for Public Health Initiatives Food Access working group, a member of APHA, former chair of the Public Health Nutrition section of Society for Nutrition Education, a 2006 Northeast Public Health Leadership Scholar, a current member of the board of directors for the United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia, a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board of the Community Outreach and Engagement Core of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, and a member of the Food Fit Philly Coalition.
jmclaugh@mail.med.upenn.edu
(215) 746-2043
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