Di Fang
Associate Professor
Di Fang is an Associate Professor in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida. Her research lies at the intersection of food policy, nutrition, and health economics, with a focus on evaluating policies and programs that influence food purchasing, dietary behaviors, and health outcomes. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE), Food Policy, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, and the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). She has served as principal investigator on research funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Dr. Fang was a 2025–26 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow with the National Academy of Medicine. During her fellowship, she was placed with the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce, where she worked on federal health and nutrition policy.
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Education
- Ph.D. in Business Administration(Agribusiness) from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
- B.S. in Economics from Nankai University in China.
- Publications