Melissa Gallanter

Food and Nutrition Program Director, Alliance for Positive Change

Role
Graduate Researcher at Nyu Mcsilver Institute
Location
Queens, NY, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Melissa Gallanter

Melissa is a public health professional and registered dietitian with an MPH in…

Experience

  1. Graduate Researcher

    Nyu Mcsilver Institute

    Jul 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

    Build and test a digital tool for scanning and analyzing grocery receipts to evaluate food purchasing behaviors in voucher-based food access programs within McSilver\'s Artificial Intelligence Hub. Develop and refine a food categorization system using Python and R, grouping over unique grocery items by food groups using validated nutrition classification systems. Conduct exploratory data analysis to assess purchasing trends and compare consumer behavior across income and food insecurity levels

Education

  • CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

    Master of Public Health - MPH

  • East Brunswick High School

    High School

    2010 — 2014

  • Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

    Dietetic Internship

    2018 — 2019

  • Boston University

    Nutritional Sciences: Dietetics

    2014 — 2018

  • CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

    Masters in Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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