Her broad research interests include diet and physical activity in school-aged children and how environmental factors and policies can shape these behaviors. She contributes to the evaluation for the NIH-funded Fueling Learning through Exercise study and the development of a tool to measure food literacy in schoolchildren. Sarah recently completed her PhD in Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Vermont. Her dissertation research addressed the application of feasible and valid dietary assessment methods to evaluate policy change and behavioral interventions in children.