Marlene B. Schwartz is the current director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health at the University of Connecticut.
[3] From 1996 to 2006, Schwartz was the co-director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders.
[4] In 2014, Schwartz received the Sarah Samuels Award from the American Public Health Association.
[5] Dr. Schwartz's current research focuses on how nutrition and wellness policies implemented in schools, food banks, and local communities can improve food security, diet equity, and health outcomes.
[6] Schwartz is married to Jeff Babbin, with whom she has three daughters—Anna, Molly, and Charlotte.