Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH
Professor
UCSF School of Medicine
Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH, is a professor in the UCSF School of Medicine. She has dedicated her career to intervening on the social determinants of health and to understanding how lifestyle risk factors, such as alcohol and poor diet, influence chronic disease and health inequality. She holds a joint appointment in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. Dr. Schmidt is also co-director of the Community Engagement and Health Policy Program for UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She received her PhD training in sociology at UC Berkeley and, while there, completed doctoral coursework in public health. She also holds a master's degree in clinical social work.
Publications:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Schmidt
Recent Blogs:
State Preemption: An Emerging Threat to Local Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation
Transnational corporations, obesity and planetary health
Can "Healthy Foods" Make You Sick?
A Critical Step in the Right Direction
Diet Soda and Belly Fat: A Growing Concern
6 Ways To Kick Added Sugar Out
Added sugar
Any sugar added in preparation of foods, either at the table, in the kitchen or in the processing plant. This may include sucrose, high fructose corn syrup and others.
SugarScience GlossaryFat
One of the three major groups of nutrients we eat. Much of this website is related to problems associated with too much fat storage in the body. Each gram of fat produces 9 calories of energy if burned by the body as fuel. Fat can be stored in many places in the body. We generally think of fat as under the skin (subcutaneous), but the fat that may be most damaging to us is the fat stored in the liver and around the organs of the abdomen (intrahepatic and visceral or abdominal or intra-abdominal)
SugarScience Glossary
