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Assistant Professor

Dr. Vivienne Hazzard (she/her) is a registered dietitian and public health researcher passionate about improving young people’s relationships with food. The overarching goal of her research is to prevent and reduce disparities in disordered eating and related sequelae (e.g., depression, type 2 diabetes). A key line of her research focuses on the role food insecurity plays in the development of disordered eating, and her ongoing work increasingly focuses on approaches to mitigating food insecurity itself.

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Hazzard VM, Loth KA, Hooper L, Becker CB. Food insecurity and eating disorders: a review of emerging evidence. Current Psychiatry Reports. 2020;22(12). doi:10.1007/s11920-020-01200-0. PMC7596309

Hazzard VM, Barry MR, Leung CW, Sonneville KR, Wonderlich SA, Crosby RD. Food insecurity and its associations with bulimic-spectrum eating disorders, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2022;57(7):1483-1490. doi:10.1007/s00127-021-02126-5. PMC8235999

Hazzard VM, Hooper L, Larson N, Loth KA, Wall M, Neumark-Sztainer D. Associations between severe food insecurity and disordered eating behaviors from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from a 10-year longitudinal study. Preventive Medicine. 2022;154:106895. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106895. PMC8724403

Hazzard VM, Loth KA, Crosby RD, Wonderlich SA, Engel SG, Larson N, Neumark-Sztainer D. Relative food abundance predicts greater binge-eating symptoms in subsequent hours among young adults experiencing food insecurity: Support for the “feast-or-famine” cycle hypothesis from an ecological momentary assessment study. Appetite. 2023;180:106316. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2022.106316. PMC9808920

To request a comprehensive CV summarizing Dr. Hazzard’s achievements, please email her at vhazzard@msu.edu.

Scholarly Interests

  • Reducing the public health burden of disordered eating, particularly in marginalized populations
  • Advancing food and nutrition equity
  • Quantitative and qualitative methods

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Education

T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Eating Disorders Research, University of Minnesota & Sanford Research, Minneapolis, MN

Doctor of Philosophy, Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI

Dietetic Internship, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI

Master of Public Health, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI

Bachelor of Science, Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA