Meg Salvia, PhD, RDN

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests

• Modeling approaches to understand eating behaviors’ impact on health
• Nutrition knowledge and skills acquisition in vulnerable life stages, including adolescence, young adulthood, and pregnancy
• Using technology and virtual platforms for dissemination and implementation of nutrition interventions
• Developing and assessing effective nutrition messaging and counseling strategies for disease prevention and improving treatment outcomes
• Using qualitative research methods to supplement and enhance quantitative analyses to understand individuals’ experiences seeking and receiving nutrition interventions
• Specific disease states and nutrition concerns:
  • Nutrition & mental health
  • Eating disorders, binge eating, body image
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Pregnancy & maternal nutrition

Courses Taught

• SAR HS 251 and 551: Human Nutrition Science
• SAR HS 384 and 584: Medical Nutrition Therapy I
• SAR HS 281 and 561: Nutrition Throughout the Lifecycle
• SAR HS 788: Theory and Practice of Clinical Counseling
• SAR HS 785: Research in Clinical Nutrition

Professional Activities

• Technical Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
• Member, AI Task Force, American Society of Nutrition
• Member, Research Committee, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Publications

Lists of published works:

• Google Scholar
• ORCID

Selected Publications:

• Salvia MG, Onteeru M, Lipson SK, Quatromoni PA. Adopting vegetarian and vegan eating patterns: Associations with disordered eating behaviors among young adult college students. Eat Behav. 2025; 57: 101967.
• Ramanadhan S, Roberts J, Salvia M, et al. Improving dissemination products and practices for community-based organizations serving LGBTQ+ communities in the USA: A thematic analysis. BMJ Public Health. 2024; 2(2):e001106. 
• Salvia MG, Roberts J, Tan ASL, et al. Design for Dissemination: Leaders Suggest Local Strategies for Implementing a Health Communications Campaign. Am J Health Promot. 2025; 39(4): 637-646. 
• Marrero A, Nicoson C, Mendoza K, Salvia MG, Golden C, Mattei J. Equity as a priority in EAT-Lancet-aligned food systems transformations for food and nutritional security, just sustainability, and cultural diversity. Nat Food. 2024; 5:811-817.
• Salvia MG, Mattie H, Tran A. Noticing and Responding to Calorie Labels on Restaurant Menus: Patterns in Sexual-Minority Men. Am J Prev Med. 2024; 66(2): 269-278.
• Costello N, Salvia MG, Austin SB, et al. Algorithms, Addiction, and Adolescent Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Study to Inform State-level Policy Action to Protect Youth from the Dangers of Social Media. American Journal of Law & Medicine. 2023; 49(2-3): 135-172.
• Ramanadhan S, Salvia MG, Hanby E, et al. “We’re always an afterthought” – Designing tobacco control campaigns for dissemination with and to LGBTQ+-serving community organizations: A thematic analysis. Cancer Causes and Control. 2023; 34(8): 673-682.
• Salvia MG, Ritholz MD, Craigen KLE, Quatromoni P. Women’s Perceptions of Weight Stigma and Experiences of Weight-Neutral Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder: A Qualitative Study. The Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine. 2023; 56:101811.
• Salvia MG, Quatromoni P. Behavioral Approaches to Nutrition and Eating Patterns for Managing Type 2 Diabetes: A Review. American Journal of Medicine Open. 2023; 9:1000034.
• Raffoul A, Salvia MG, Turner S, Austin SB. Population-level policy recommendations for the prevention of disordered weight-control behaviors: A scoping review. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 2023; 10.1002.
• Grummon AH, Musicus AA, Moraj Aj, Salvia MG, Rimm EB. Consumer Reactions to Positive and Negative Front-of-Package Food Labels. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2023; 64(1):86-95.
• Salvia MG, Ritholz MD, Craigen KLE, Quatromoni P. Managing Type 2 Diabetes or Prediabetes and Binge Eating Disorder: A Qualitative Study of Patients’ Perceptions and Lived Experiences. Journal of Eating Disorders. 2022;10(1):148.
• Grummon AH, Musicus AA, Salvia MG, Rimm EB. Impact of Health, Environmental, and Animal Welfare Messages Discouraging REd Meat Consumption: An Online Randomized Experiment. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2022; S22122-2672(22)01071-1.
• Ritholz M, Salvia MG, Craigen KLE, Quatromoni P. What helps and what hinders primary care treatment for women with type 2 diabetes and binge eating disorder? A qualitative study. Diabetic Medicine. 2022; 39(8):e14887.

Honors and Awards

• Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Diabetes Group Publications Award (2023)
• Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics BHN Research Excellence Award (2023)
• T.H. Chan Dept. of Biostatistics Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2022)
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Maxine & Arlene Wilson scholarship (2022)
• Academy for Eating Disorders RSH scholarship (2021)
• STRIPED Eating Disorders Coalition Advocacy Day travel scholarship (2021)
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics CDR Doctoral scholarship (2021)
• Massachusetts Dietitians Education Foundation scholarship (2021)
• Presidential scholarship, Harvard University (2019)
• Murray Fertal scholarship, Boston University (2012)
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics O’Malley Memorial Scholarship (2011)

Licensure and Certifications

• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Commission on Dietetic Registration
• Licensed Dietitian, Massachusetts
• Certified Diabetes Educator (CDCES), National Certification Board for Diabetes
  Educators (previously known as Certified Diabetes Educator, CDE)
• Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Consultant (CEDS-C), International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP)