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Research Overview
Ann Ferris has worked at the University of Connecticut since 1978. She is a full professor in nutritional sciences, the co-director of the Center for Public Health and Health Policy, and a joint professor in Community Medicine and Health Care at the UConn Health Center.
Ann's current research interests include community and public health nutrition, specifically the nature of iron-deficiency anemia and childhood overweight of children living in poverty and community-based participatory research. She is also working on two applications of the IMB model for changing beverage intake and increasing the intake of foods with bioavailable iron in preschool children.
Ann has received numerous awards, including the AAUP and CT State Legislature University Service Award in 2002 and the Gamma Sigma Delta Senior Faculty Award in 2000. Ann also serves on the Publications Management Committee for the American Society for Nutrition and was the 2002-2003 Public Nutrition Research Interest Section Chair for the American Society for Nutritional Sciences.
Education
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1978 (food science and nutrition)
M.S., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1975 (food science and nutrition)
B.S., Simmons College, 1967 (nutrition)
Featured Publications
Crowell R, Ferris A, Wood RJ, Joyce P, Slivka H. (2006) Comparative effectiveness of zinc protoporphyrin and hemoglobin concentration in identifying iron-deficiency in a group of low-income preschoolers: The practical implications of recent illness. Pediatrics. 118:224-232.
Pierce, MB, Crowell, RE, Ferris, AM (2006) Differing perspectives of inner city parents and pediatric clinicians impact management of iron-deficiency anemia. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 38:169-176.
Weinstein, J. A.M. Ferris, V. Phillips, and M. Arsenault. (2006) A Universal Product Code Scanner is a Feasible Method of Measuring Household Food Inventory and Food Usage Patterns in Low Income Families. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 106:443-5.
Crowell, RE, Pierce, MB, Ferris, AM, Slivka, H, Joyce, P, Bernstein B, Russell-Curtis, S. (2005) Managing anemia in low-income toddlers: barriers, challenges and context in primary care. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 16 (4) 791-807.
Ferris, A. M. and G. Marquis. (2005). Bioethics in scientific research: conflicts between subject’s equitable access to participate in research and current regulations. J. Nutr. 135(4): 916-7.
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