Tatiana Andreyeva

Director of Economic Initiatives

Dr. Tatiana Andreyeva is Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut and Director of Economic Initiatives at the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health.

Dr. Andreyeva is an economist whose research focuses on evaluating the impacts of public policies and programs on nutrition, food security, and health. Over the past 20 years, her work has examined how economic incentives, social policies, and food environments shape food choices and health outcomes, with particular attention to populations at greater economic risk.

Dr. Andreyeva is recognized for her expertise in the economic evaluation of food policies, including consumer taxes and subsidies and the effects of sugary drink taxes on purchases, consumption, and tax revenue. Her research also examines federal nutrition programs, food environments, supply-chain disruptions, and the economic costs of obesity and diet-related disease.

Her current research examines how state paid family and medical leave policies affect food security, maternal and infant health, and nutrition-related outcomes among families with young children. Other recent work evaluates universal school meal policies and household food purchasing, changes in infant feeding practices following the COVID-19 pandemic and the infant formula shortage, the Community Eligibility Provision and child outcomes, and participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).

Dr. Andreyeva earned her Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.