Kelly Brownell, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, Epidemiology and Public Health
Institute of Social Policy Studies
Director, Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders
Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

Email:
kelly.brownell@yale.edu

URL:
Psychology Department
Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders
Rudd Center

 

Kelly Brownell ’s work concerns eating, weight, and nutrition issues, and emphasizes both clinical and public health perspectives. On the clinical front, he directs the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders where individuals with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating problems, body image issues, and obesity are provided clinical services.  In the context of this work, research is carried out on etiology, risk factors, and effectiveness of treatments. Brownell’s public health work focuses mainly on how modern food and physical activity environments contribute to poor diet and obesity. This work is done in the context of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, which he directs. Issues such as school lunch programs, snack foods and soft drinks in schools, advertising aimed at children, government subsidies for the food industry, and the political might of the food industry are topics he and his colleagues investigate.  The aim is to propose changes in public policy that would aid in the prevention of nutrition problems such as obesity.

 

Select Publications

Brownell, K.D., Puhl, R.B., & Schwartz, M.B., & Rudd, L.C. (Eds.). (2005).  Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies.  New York: Guilford.

Brownell. K.D., & Yach, D. (2005, November/December).  The battle of the bulge.  Foreign Policy, 26-27.

Brownell, K.D. (2005).  Does a toxic environment make obesity inevitable?  Obesity Management, 1, 52-55.

Brownell, K.D. (2005).  The chronicling obesity: Growing awareness of its social, economic, and political contexts.  Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 30, 955-964.

Brownell, K.D. (2005). Is there any hope of preventing childhood obesity? Global Health and Environment Monitor, 13, 1-4.

Brownell, K.D., & Horgen, K.B. (2004). Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America’s Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It. New York: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books.

Brownell, K.D., & Nestle, M. (2004). Are you responsible for your own weight? Time Magazine, June 7, 2004, 113.

Brownell, K.D., & Nestle, M. (2004, January 23). The sweet and lowdown on sugar (OpEd). New York Times, p. A23.

Brownell, K.D., & Ludwig, D.S. (2002, June 9).  Fighting obesity and the food lobby (OpEd). Washington Post, B07.

Jacobson, M.F., & Brownell, K.D. (2000).  Small taxes on soft drinks and snack foods to promote health. American Journal of Public Health, 90, 854-857.