Andrea Sharkey
Biographic Data
| ID | 6735857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Sharkey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharkey |
| SIGNATURE | SHARKEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5222-7328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Purchases of toddler formula in the USA
Objective: Toddler drinks, sometimes referred to as toddler milks or formulas, are not recommended by health authorities because they have a higher sugar and lower protein content than cows’ milk. However, advertisement spending and retail sales of these products have grown in the USA, and there is a nutrition surveillance gap in purchaser characteristics. Design: Household purchases of toddler drinks between 2004 and 2020. Setting: NielsenIQ con…
US Food Industry Progress Toward Salt Reduction, 2009–2018
Objectives. To determine the extent to which reductions in sodium during the National Salt Reduction Initiative (NSRI) target-setting period (2009–2014) continued after 2014. Methods. We used the NSRI Packaged Food Database, which links products in the top 80% of US packaged food sales to nutrition information, to assess the proportion of products meeting the NSRI targets and the sales-weighted mean sodium density (mg/100 g) of 54 packaged food c…
Social Media Accounts of Food and Beverage Brands Have Disproportionately More Black and Hispanic Followers than White Followers
Unhealthy food/beverage brands that target Black adolescents have a disproportionately higher percentage of Black followers on social media relative to White followers. These findings support the 2019 proposal to restrict racially targeted advertising through the Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act
Abject citizenship – rethinking exclusion and inclusion
This article discusses the complex and contradictory nature of ‘abject citizenship’ as it is experienced by teenagers from a small town youth centre. Lines between inclusion and exclusion are blurred by these resilient youth as they re-appropriate central and accepted spaces as well as marginalized spaces to destabilize the categories of insider and outsider. This snapshot ethnography demonstrates how these young disadvantaged citizens create une…
Abject citizenship – rethinking exclusion and inclusion
This article discusses the complex and contradictory nature of ‘abject citizenship’ as it is experienced by teenagers from a small town youth centre. Lines between inclusion and exclusion are blurred by these resilient youth as they re-appropriate central and accepted spaces as well as marginalized spaces to destabilize the categories of insider and outsider. This snapshot ethnography demonstrates how these young disadvantaged citizens create une…
Abject citizenship – rethinking exclusion and inclusion
This article discusses the complex and contradictory nature of ‘abject citizenship’ as it is experienced by teenagers from a small town youth centre. Lines between inclusion and exclusion are blurred by these resilient youth as they re-appropriate central and accepted spaces as well as marginalized spaces to destabilize the categories of insider and outsider. This snapshot ethnography demonstrates how these young disadvantaged citizens create une…
Social Media Accounts of Food and Beverage Brands Have Disproportionately More Black and Hispanic Followers than White Followers
Unhealthy food/beverage brands that target Black adolescents have a disproportionately higher percentage of Black followers on social media relative to White followers. These findings support the 2019 proposal to restrict racially targeted advertising through the Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act
US Food Industry Progress Toward Salt Reduction, 2009–2018
Objectives. To determine the extent to which reductions in sodium during the National Salt Reduction Initiative (NSRI) target-setting period (2009–2014) continued after 2014. Methods. We used the NSRI Packaged Food Database, which links products in the top 80% of US packaged food sales to nutrition information, to assess the proportion of products meeting the NSRI targets and the sales-weighted mean sodium density (mg/100 g) of 54 packaged food c…
Purchases of toddler formula in the USA
Objective: Toddler drinks, sometimes referred to as toddler milks or formulas, are not recommended by health authorities because they have a higher sugar and lower protein content than cows’ milk. However, advertisement spending and retail sales of these products have grown in the USA, and there is a nutrition surveillance gap in purchaser characteristics. Design: Household purchases of toddler drinks between 2004 and 2020. Setting: NielsenIQ con…
Business (2 works) · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 work) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work) · Children's Rights and Participation (1 work)