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Ofira Schwartz-Soicher is a second year PhD student at Columbia University School of Social Work, concentrating in policy analysis. Her broad research interests include maternal and child health, child and family policy, urban poverty and health disparities among low-income populations. Her particular interest is in disentangling the effects of neighborhoods on the obesity epidemic. She has been working with Profs. Garfinkel and Mincy, and Dr. Geller on the effects of incarceration on family resources and child wellbeing using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. Immediately before entering Columbia University, she worked for the federally-funded study “Effects of Child Health on Family Resources” at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Pediatrics. Prior to that, she worked at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University. She holds an MBA from Rider University and B.Sc. in nutrition from the Hebrew University.