Lisa M. Powell
Distinguished Professor and Director
Health Policy and Administration
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About
Lisa M. Powell, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor and Director in the Division Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health and Director of the Illinois Prevention Research Center in the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Powell has extensive experience as an applied micro-economist in the empirical analysis of the effects of public policy on a series of behavioral outcomes. Much of her current research is on assessing the importance of economic and environmental factors (such as food prices, sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes; access to food stores, fast-food restaurants, other eating places, and facilities for physical activity; and, television food advertising exposure) on food consumption and physical activity behaviors and as determinants of obesity, including related disparities. Her work has made substantial contributions to the evidence base for policymakers in the areas of SSB taxes and child-directed marketing. Dr. Powell is the recipient of the 2013 University of Illinois at Chicago Researcher of the Year Award in the Social Sciences. Dr. Powell’s research has been funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and she serves on a number of national and international expert advisory committees.
Selected Grants
Bloomberg Philanthropies, Evaluation of U.S. Food Policies, Principal Investigator
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center, Principal Investigator
Bloomberg Philanthropies, Evaluation of Local-level Sweetened Beverage Taxation in the United States, Principal Investigator
Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Evaluation of the Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax, Principal Investigator
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Children’s Exposure to Food and Beverage Product Advertising on Television and Related Nutritional Content, Principal Investigator
Selected Publications
Powell, Lisa M., Julien Leider (2020) Evaluation of Changes in Beverage Prices and Volume Sold Following the Implementation and Repeal of a Sweetened Beverage Tax in Cook County, Illinois. JAMA Network Open. 2020; 3(12):e2031083.
Powell, Lisa M., Julien Leider, Pierre Thomas Léger (2020) The Impact of a Sweetened Beverage Tax on Beverage Volume Sold in Cook County, Illinois, and Its Border Area. Annals of Internal Medicine 172:390-397.
Powell, Lisa M., Julien Leider (2020) The impact of Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax on beverage prices and volume sold. Economics & Human Biology 37:100856.
Powell, Lisa M., Kelly Jones, Ana Clara Duran, Elizabeth, Tarlov, Shannon N. Zenk (2019) The price of ultra-processed foods and beverages and adult body weight: Evidence from U.S. veterans. Economics & Human Biology 34:39-48.
Powell, Lisa M. and Matthew L. Maciejewski (2018) Taxes and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages. JAMA, 319(3):229-230.
Powell, Lisa M., Roy Wada, Tamkeen Khan, and Sherry L. Emery (2017) Food and beverage television advertising exposure and youth consumption, body mass index and adiposity outcomes. Canadian Journal of Economics, 50(2):345-364.
Powell, Lisa M., Binh T. Nguyen and William H. Dietz (2015) Energy and Nutrient intake from Pizza in the United States. Pediatrics, 135(2):322-330.
Powell, Lisa M., Roy Wada, Joseph J. Persky, and Frank J. Chaloupka (2014). Employment Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes. American Journal of Public Health, 104(4):672-677.
Powell, Lisa M., Jamie F. Chriqui, Tamkeen Khan, Roy Wada, and Frank J. Chaloupka (2013) Assessing the potential effectiveness of food and beverage taxes and subsidies for improving public health: a systematic review of prices, demand and body weight outcomes. Obesity Reviews, 14:110-128.
Powell, Lisa M., and Euna Han (2011) Adult Obesity and the Price and Availability of Food in the United States. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93(2): 378-384.
Powell, Lisa M., Rebecca Schermbeck, Glen Szczypka, Frank J. Chaloupka and Carol Braunschweig (2011) Trends in the Nutritional Content of T.V. Food Advertisements Seen by Children in the U.S.: Analyses by Age, Food Categories, and Companies, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine (JAMA Pediatrics), 165(12):1078-1086.
Powell, Lisa M. (2009) Fast Food Costs and Adolescent Body Mass Index: Evidence from Panel Data. Journal of Health Economics, 28:963–970
Powell, Lisa M. and Yanjun Bao (2009) “Food Prices, Access to Food Outlets and Child Weight”. Economics and Human Biology. 7:64-72.
Powell, Lisa M. and Frank J. Chaloupka (2009) “Food Prices and Obesity: Evidence and Policy Implications for Taxes and Subsidies”. The Milbank Quarterly, 87(1):229-257.
Education
Queen’s University, Department of Economics, Kingston, Canada 1995
Ph.D. Degree in Economics
Queen’s University, Department of Economics, Kingston, Canada 1990
Master’s Degree in Economics
Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France 1989
Certificate de Langue Française, Niveau supérieur
University of Toronto, Trinity College, Toronto, Canada 1988
Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and Quantitative Methods