Jaime Coffino

Jaime Coffino, PhD, MPH is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Director of the Coffino Center for Eating, Anxiety, and Mood Disorders in New York City. She opened the Coffino Center because she wanted to provide high-quality evidence-based treatment and personalized care to patients. She is also an adjunct professor at the NYU School of Global Public Health teaching Food Marketing and Communications. Before joining NYU, she earned a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University and doctorate in clinical psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She completed a predoctoral fellowship specializing in eating disorder treatment at Yale University and a clinical psychology internship within the behavioral medicine track at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in the Department of Population Health. Her research integrates perspectives from psychology and public health to understand how individuals make decisions about their health. In particular, she applies behavioral economic principles to the study of food choice, with a particular focus on individuals living with food insecurity. With grant funding from the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis and the Center for Behavioral Economics and Healthy Food Choice Research, she conducted a series of studies testing the efficacy of a default intervention (i.e., a prefilled grocery shopping cart) in individuals living with food insecurity.