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Jennifer Orlet Fisher

  • Barnett College of Public Health

    • Social and Behavioral Sciences

      • Professor

  • College of Public Health

    • Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE)

      • Associate Director

Biography

Dr. Jennifer Orlet Fisher is a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Temple University and associate director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education where she directs the Family Eating Laboratory. She holds graduate degrees in Nutrition from the University of Illinois (A.M., Nutritional Sciences, 1993) and from the Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D., Nutrition, 1997). Prior to her appointment at Temple University, Dr. Fisher was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and scientist at the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center in Houston TX.

Dr. Fisher research focuses on the development of eating behavior during infancy and early childhood. The broad goal of her research is to understand how early eating environments influence child behavioral controls of food intake and health outcomes, particularly overweight. Her efforts focus on the role of the family environment, as a first and fundamental context in which eating habits develop. Over the past decade she has conducted federally-funded observational and experimental investigations of socio-environmental influences on development in appetite regulation in preschool aged children, including studies of child feeding practices and food portion sizes. Her current research focuses on snacking behaviors in young children and interventions with low-income mothers around child feeding.

Dr. Fisher has more than 100 peer-reviewed research publications. Her work has received national media coverage by the New York Times, the Scientific American Frontiers series on PBS, and more recently, the Discovery Health Channel. Dr. Fisher was the 2006 recipient of the Alex Malspina Future Leader Award given by the International Life Sciences Institute North America. Dr. Fisher is Co-Executive Editor at Appetite, a scholarly journal dedicated to the study of ingestive behavior and is on the Editorial Board of Nutrition Reviews. She is an active member of The International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity and of The Obesity Society where she has held a number of leadership positions.

Education

  • PhD, Nutrition, Pennsylvania State University
  • AM, Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
  • AB, Biology, Augustana College

Curriculum Vitae 

Google Scholar: Jennifer Fisher's Google Scholar profile

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

SBS 5015

Public Health Nutrition

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Moore, A.M., Fisher, J.O., Burgess, B., Morris, K.S., Croce, C.M., & Kong, K.L. (2023). Caregiver feeding decisions and sociodemographic characteristics are associated with snack food intake during infancy and toddlerhood. Appetite, 186, 106551. England. 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106551

  • Croce, C.M., Tripicchio, G.L., Coffman, D.L., & Fisher, J.O. (2023). Association of Snacking Frequency, Size, and Energy Density with Weight Status among Preschool-Aged Children in the United States. J Acad Nutr Diet, 123(2), 309-317. United States. 10.1016/j.jand.2022.07.001

  • Power, T.G., Beck, A., Garcia, K.S., Aguilar, N.D., Hopwood, V., Ramos, G., Guerrero, Y.O., Fisher, J.O., O'Connor, T.M., & Hughes, S.O. (2022). Low-Income Latina Mothers' Scaffolding of Preschoolers' Behavior in a Stressful Situation and Children's Self-Regulation: A Longitudinal Study. Parent Sci Pract, 22(2), 161-187. England. 10.1080/15295192.2020.1820835

  • Loth, K., Ji, Z., Wolfson, J., Berge, J., Neumark-Sztainer, D., & Fisher, J. (2022). COVID-19 pandemic shifts in food-related parenting practices within an ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of families of preschool-aged children. Appetite, 168, 105714. England. 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105714

  • Power, T.G., Fisher, J.O., O'Connor, T.M., Micheli, N., Papaioannou, M.A., & Hughes, S.O. (2022). Self-regulatory processes in early childhood as predictors of Hispanic children's BMI z-scores during the elementary school years: Differences by acculturation and gender. Appetite, 168, 105778. England. 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105778

  • Blake, C.E., Davison, K.K., Blaine, R.E., & Fisher, J.O. (2021). Occasions, purposes, and contexts for offering snacks to preschool-aged children: Schemas of caregivers with low-income backgrounds. Appetite, 167, 105627. England. 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105627

  • Johnson, S.L., Shapiro, A.L., Moding, K.J., Flesher, A., Davis, K., & Fisher, J.O. (2021). Infant and Toddler Consumption of Sweetened and Unsweetened Lipid Nutrient Supplements After 2-Week Home Repeated Exposures. J Nutr, 151(9), 2825-2834. United States. 10.1093/jn/nxab148

  • Hughes, S.O., Power, T.G., O'Connor, T.M., Fisher, J.O., Micheli, N.E., & Papaioannou, M.A. (2021). Maternal feeding style and child weight status among Hispanic families with low-income levels: a longitudinal study of the direction of effects. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act, 18(1), 30. England. 10.1186/s12966-021-01094-y

  • Power, T.G., Fisher, J.O., O'Connor, T.M., Micheli, N., Papaioannou, M.A., & Hughes, S.O. (2021). General Parenting and Hispanic Mothers' Feeding Practices and Styles. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 18(2). Switzerland. 10.3390/ijerph18020380

  • Power, T.G., Beck, A.D., Fisher, J.O., Micheli, N., O'Connor, T.M., & Hughes, S.O. (2021). Observations of Maternal Feeding Practices and Styles and Young Children's Obesity Risk: A Longitudinal Study of Hispanic Mothers with Low Incomes. Child Obes, 17(1), 16-25. United States. 10.1089/chi.2020.0178