Publications

Below are publications from the past 5 years (plus the textbook I edited). See CV for full publications listing.

• Ceryes C, Rittenberg CG, Edwards D, Khan S, Heley K, Seifu L, Neff RA. Farmer incentives for crop donation: A qualitative study.  2023. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development.  12(4), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.124.002  
• Spiker ML, Welling J, Hertenstein D, Mishra S, Mishra K, Hurley K.M., Neff RA, Fanzo J, Lee, BY. 2023. Increasing vegetable production without supply chain improvements fails to close food availability gaps: A simulation model in India. Food Policy. In press.
• Babbitt CW, Neff RA, Roe B, Siddiqui S, Chavis C, Trabold T. 2022. Transforming wasted food will require systemic and sustainable infrastructure innovations. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101151
• Pruden B, Reznar MM, Gunen B, Yan S, Neff RA, Poirier L, Hinman S, Park R, Katragadda N, Goskinski N, & Gittelsohn, J. (2022). Assessing the quality and quantity of initially unused food among urban food pantry clients in Baltimore, Maryland. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. 10.1080/19320248.2022.2032896
• Ceryes CA, Antonacci CA, Harvey S, Spiker ML, Bickers A, Neff RA. “Maybe it’s still good?” Supermarket workers’ experiences of food waste reduction, recycling, and rescue efforts. Appetite. 2021. June 1; 161: 105111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105111  
• Neff RA, Love DC, Overbey K, Biehl E, Deutsch J, Gorski-Steiner I, Pearson P, Vigil T, Turvey C, Fry JP. 2021. Consumer seafood waste and the potential of a “direct-from-frozen” approach to prevention. Foods. https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/11/2524/htm
• Turvey C, Moran M, Sacheck J, Arashiro A, Huang Q, Heley K, Johnston E, Neff RA. 2021. Impact of Messaging Strategy on Consumer Understanding of Food Date Labels. Journal of Nutrition Education & Behavior 53:5, P389-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2021.03.007
• National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine. 2020. A National Strategy to Reduce Wasted Food at the Consumer Level: A Consensus Study Report. Board on Environmental Change and Society; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. https://www.nap.edu/read/25876/ 6 chapters, 250 pp.
• Neff RA, Hecht AA, Zaltz DA, Pate PR, Neelon B, O’Neill JR, Benjamin-Neelon SE. 2020. Preschool healthy food policy did not increase percent of food wasted: Evidence from the Carolinas. Nutrients. 12(10), 3024; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12103024
• Omolayo Y, Feingold BJ, Neff RA, Romeiko XX. 2020. Life cycle assessment of food loss and waste in the food supply chain: A review. 2021. Resources Conservation & Recycling. v.164. In press.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105119
• Hecht A and Neff RA. 2020. Food Rescue Intervention Evaluations: A Systematic Review. Sustainability  11(23), 6718; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236718
• Neff RA, Spiker M, Rice C, Shklair A, Greenberg S, Broad Leib E. 2019. Misunderstood food date labels and reported food discards: A survey of US consumer attitudes and behaviors. Waste Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.01.023
• Baig, M, Gorski I, Neff RA. 2019. Addressing wasted food in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences.  26:7. 1633-1648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2018.08.030
• Neff RA, Dean E, Spiker ML, Snow T. 2018. Salvageable food losses from Vermont farms. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development. 8:2. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2018.082.006  
• Feingold B, Xue X, Bozlak C, Neff RA, Hosler A, Jurkowski J. 2018. Introducing a dynamic framework to jointly address policy impacts on environmental and human health in a regional produce recovery and redistribution system. 2019. Journal of Public Affairs. 19:3. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1859

Food System Resilience

• Lara-Arévalo J, Escobar-Burgos L, Moore E, Neff RA, Spiker M. 2023. COVID-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis. Global Food Security. In press.
• Clay LA, Koyratty N, Rogus S, Colon-Ramos U, Hossan A, Josephson A, Neff R, Zack RM, Niles MT. 2023. A mixed methods approach to the development of a disaster food security framework. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.  123:10. S46-58. https://doi-org.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/10.1016/j.jand.2023.05.005
• Moore E, Biehl E, Burke M, Misiaszek C, Bassarab K, Neff RA. Food System Resilience: A Planning Guide for Local Governments. Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. https://clf.jhsph.edu/sites/default/files/2022-12/the-resilience-planning-guide.pdf
• Moynihan E, Avraam C, Siddiqui S, Neff RA. 2022. Optimization Based Modeling for the Food Supply Chain’s Resilience to Outbreaks. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.887819
• Avraam C, Zhang Y, Sankaranarayanan S, Zaitchik B, Moynihan E, Juturu P, Neff RA, Siddiqui S. Optimization-based systems modeling for the food-energy-water nexus. Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports 8:4-16. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40518-020-00161-5
• Hecht AA*, Biehl E, Barnett DJ, Neff RA. 2019. Urban food supply chain resilience for crises threatening food security: A qualitative study in a mid-sized US city. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 119:2. 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2018.09.001
• Hecht A, Biehl E, Chodor G, Neff RA. 2018. Using a trauma-informed policy approach to create a resilient urban food system. Public Health Nutrition. 21:10. July. 1961-70. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018000198
• Chodor G, Zhao X, Biehl E, Mitrani-Reiser J, Neff RA. 2018. Assessing food system vulnerabilities: a fault tree modeling approach. BMC Public Health. 18:817. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5563-x
• Biehl E., Buzogany S., Baja K., Neff RA. 2018. Planning for a Resilient Urban Food System: A Case Study from Baltimore City, Maryland. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. 8(B), 39-53. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2018.08B.008
• Zhao X, Chodor G, Biehl E, Neff RA, Mitrani-Reiser J. 2018. Food security in the aftermath of a seismic event.In 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018, NCEE 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy (pp. 5646-5656). (11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018, NCEE 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy; Vol. 9). Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
• Bakker C, Zaitchik B, Siddiqui S, Hobbs B, Broaddus E, Neff R, Haskett J, Parker C. 2018. Shocks, seasonality, and disaggregation: Modelling food security through the integration of agricultural, transportation, and economic systems. Agricultural Systems. 164: 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2018.04.005 
• Biehl E, Freishtat H, Buzogany S, Huang A, Baja K, Neff RA. 2017. Baltimore Food System Resilience Assessment.  Baltimore City Office of Sustainability and Johns Hopkins. 6 chapters 

Sustainable Food Systems (Includes Diets, Seafood)

• Neff RA, Ramsing R, Kim B. Commercial weight-loss diets may greatly exceed sustainable targets for greenhouse gas emissions and freshwater consumption. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. In press.
• Orta-Aleman D, Caulfield L, Neff R, Thorne-Lyman A, Wolfson J. The Cost of Substituting Red Meat or Processed Meat for Other High-Protein Food Sources. Current Developments in Nutrition. V7 S1 July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.100826
• Scroggins RE, Fry JP, Brown MT, Neff RA, Asche F, Anderson JL, Love DC. 2022. Renewable energy use in United States farmed catfish and wild-capture salmon production. J of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134153
• Viglia S, Brown MT, Love DC, Fry JP, Scroggins R, Neff RA. 2022. Analysis of Energy and Water Use in US Farmed Catfish: toward a more resilient and sustainable production system. Journal of cleaner production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134796   
• Brown MT, Viglia S, Love D, Asche F, Nussbaumer E, Fry J, Hilborn R, Neff RA. 2022. Quantifying the Environmental Support to Wild Catch Alaskan Sockeye Salmon and FarmedNorwegian Atlantic Salmon: an emergy approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133379
• Brown MT, Viglia S, Love D, Fry J, Neff RA, Hilborn R. 2022. Wild caught Alaska sockeye salmon: a case study of the food energy water nexus for a sustainable wild catch fishery. Journal of Cleaner Production. 369:1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133263
• Reinhardt, S., R. Boehm, N. Tichenor Blackstone, N.H. El-Abbadi, J.S. McNally Brandow, S.F. Taylor, and M.S. DeLonge. 2020. Systematic Review of Dietary Patterns and Sustainability in the United States. Advances in Nutrition 11(4):1016-1031. doi: 10.1093/advances/nmaa026.
• Spiker, M., S. Reinhardt, and M. Bruening. 2020. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Revised 2020 Standards of Professional Performance for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (Competent, Proficient, and Expert) in Sustainable, Resilient, and Healthy Food and Water Systems. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 120(9):1568-1585.e28. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2020.05.010.
• Santo R, Kim B, Goldman S, Dutkiewicz J, Biehl E, McKenzie S, Bloem M, Neff RA, Nachman K. 2020. Considering plant-based meat substitutes and cell-based meats: A public health and food system perspective. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00134
• Kim B, Santo R, Scatterday A, Fry J, Synk C, Cebron S, Mekonnen M, Hoekstra A, de Pee S, Bloem M, Neff RA [co-last author], Nachman K. Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crises. 2020. Global Environmental Change. V.62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.010   
• Love DC, Asche F, Conrad Z, Young R, Harding J, Nussbaumer E, Thorne-Lyman AL, Neff RA. 2020. Food Sources and Expenditures for Seafood in the United States. Nutrients. 12(6), 1810 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061810
• Smith M, Love D, Rochman C, Neff RA. 2018. Microplastics in Seafood and the Implications for Human Health. Current Environmental Health Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-018-0206-z
• Neff RA, Edwards D, Ramsing R, Palmer A, Righter A, Wolfson J. 2018. Reducing meat consumption in the US: A nationally representative survey of attitudes and behaviours. Public Health Nutrition. Jul;21(10):1835-1844. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017004190

Other Topics: Food Policy, Workers, Equity, Agriculture

• Ceryes CA, Agnew J, Wirtz AL, Barnett DJ, Neff RA. 2023. Exploring U.S. food system workers’ intentions to work while ill during the early COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey.  Int J Environ Res Public Health. 10.3390/ijerph20021638
• Robinson-Oghogho J, Thorpe RJ, Neff RA. 2022. Dietary behaviors among new users of meal-kit services during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nutrients. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14193953.
• Kharmats AY, Corrigan AE Curriero, FC, Neff R, Caulfield L, Kennedy CE, Whitley J, Montazer JS, Hu L, Gittelsohn J. 2022. Geospatial food environment exposure and obesity among low income Baltimore City children: Comparisons across data sources and data processing methods.  Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2022.2090882
• Hecht AA, Neff RA, Kelley TL, Pollack Porter, KM. Universal Free Schools Meals through the Community Eligibility Provision: Maryland School Food Service Provider Perspectives on Implementation and Impact. 2021. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. 10:2. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2021.102.033 
• Ceryes CA, Robinson J*, Biehl E, Wirtz AL, Barnett DJ, Neff RA. 2021. Frequency of workplace controls and associations with safety perceptions among a national sample of U.S. food retail workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 63:7, 557-64.https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002218  
• Niles MT, Bertmann F, Morgan EH, Wentworth T, Biehl E, Neff RA. 2020. The early food insecurity impacts of COVID-19.  Nutrients. 12(7), 2096; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12072096
• Zaltz DA, Hecht AA, Neff RA, Pate PR, Neelon B, O’Neill JR, Benjamin-Neelon SE. 2020. Healthy eating policy improves children’s diet quality in early care and education in South Carolina. Nutrients. 12(6), 1753; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061753
• Cowling K, Stuart E, Neff RA, Magraw D, Vernick J, Pollack Porter K. 2020. The relationship between joining a U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) and processed food sales, 2002-2016: a comparative interrupted time-series analysis. 2020 Public Health Nutrition 23:9. 1609-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019003999
• Cowling K, Stuart E, Neff RA, Magraw D, Vernick J, Pollack Porter K. 2019. World Trade Organization (WTO) membership and changes in noncommunicable disease risk factors: a comparative interrupted time-series analysis, 1980-2013. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Volume 97, Number 2, February 2019, 83-96A http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.18.218057
• Swartz H, Santo R, Neff RA. Promoting Food System Change in an Unequal City: A Case Study of Baltimore, Maryland. In: Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, v3. 2018, pp. 135-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.af2s.2018.09.006

COVID-19 Practice-Related Reports

• Acciai F, McCarthy AC, Harper K, Josephson A, Belarmino EH, Niles MT, Bertmann F, Biehl E, DeWeezer R, Martiner S, Neff R, Ohri-Vachaspati P. 2021. Food insecurity and food assistance program participation in the U.S.: One year into the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• Bradley B, Harper K, Robinson J, Biehl E, Neff R. Food Access for Families with Children in Maryland During the First Four Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2021.
• Bradley B, Harper K, Robinson J, Biehl E, Neff R. Employment and Food in Maryland During the First Four Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2021.
• Bradley B, Harper K, Robinson J, Biehl E, Neff R. Food Security and Food Access for People of Color and Hispanic/Latinx Households in Maryland During the First Four Months of the COVID-19. 2021.
• Feingold BJ, Torres Arroyo M, Hosler A, Craft T, Lwin HW, Bozlak CT, Romeiko XX, Neff RA. Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security in New York’s Capital Region. 2021.
• COVID-19 and Food Insecurity Working Group [Neff, R: member]: Research Agenda-Setting Paper. CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health & Social Sciences Research. National Science Foundation, Social Science Extreme Events Research. 2020.
• Belarmino EH, Bertmann FMW, Wentworth T, Biehl E, Neff R, Niles MT. “Early COVID-19 Impacts on Food Retail and Restaurants: Consumer Perspectives from Vermont.” 
• Belarmino EH, Bertmann FMW, Wentworth T Biehl E, Neff R, Niles MT. 2020. “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Local Food System: Early Findings from Vermont.” 
• Bertmann FMW, Belarmino EH, Wentworth T Biehl E, Neff R, Niles MT. 2020. “Food Access through School Meals and Food Pantries during COVID-19: Early findings from Vermont.” 
• Niles MT, Bertmann F, Morgan EH, Biehl E, Wentworth T, Neff R. 2020. “Food Access and Security During Coronavirus: A Vermont Study.”   
• Niles MT, Bertmann F, Morgan EH, Biehl E, Wentworth T, Neff R. 2020. “The Impact of Coronavirus on Vermonters Experiencing Food Insecurity.” 
• Niles MT, Bertmann F, Morgan EH, Biehl E, Wentworth T, Neff R. 2020. “Employment and Food During Coronavirus.” 
• Harper K, Acciai F, Josephson A, Bertmann F, Ohri-Vachaspati P, Belarmino EH, Niles M, Robinson J*, Neff RA. 2020. Experiences of households with new and persistent food insecurity during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. National Food Access & COVID Research Team. 
• Robinson J, Bertmann F, Harper K, Biehl E, Neff RA. US Consumer Experiences with Food Access During Covid-19. National Food Access & COVID Research Team. 
• Ohri-Vachaspati P, Acciai F, Martinelli S, Harper K, Bertmann F, Belarmino EH, Neff RA, Niles M. Food Assistance Program Participation among US Households during the COVID-19 Pandemic. National Food Access & COVID Research Team.