Eliza M. Mojduszka

Her responsibilities at ORACBA include reviewing and evaluating regulatory impact, economic, and risk analyses required for qualifying USDA proposed and final rules and regulations that affect food safety, human health, animal and plant health, human safety and the environment. Prior to joining ORACBA in late 2006, Dr. Mojduszka was a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She also was a Harvard University fellow in the Economics Department and a visiting teaching faculty at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters referenced in over fifteen hundred peer reviewed publications and scientific reports. Her research areas include economics and policy of food safety and nutrition; the role of economics in evaluating risk and risk control programs; food standards as non-tariff barriers to trade; discrete choice demand modeling for understanding consumer and firm behavior and public policy; random utility modeling; food safety and nutrition risk management; food safety and nutrition control schemes modeling (with endogenous risk).