Patti Truant Anderson
Policy Director
Patti joined the Center for a Livable Future in 2021 and is the Center’s Policy Director and an Assistant Practice Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. She oversees projects aimed at protecting public health and promoting equitable and sustainable food systems by helping to translate evidence into effective public policy solutions. She has co-authored journal articles and conducted research on the environmental impacts of school meal programs, meat processing line speeds, food waste, news media framing of nutrition policy, disease cluster investigations, and risk communication.
Her prior experience includes work in the federal government, non-governmental organizations, and the news media. She holds an MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a BA in Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. Patti also is a faculty associate in the School’s Department of Health Policy and Management, where she has taught a course on public health communication since 2017.