Leigh Rosen is a project coordinator and founding member of Temple University's new Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE), where she connects public health, planning, and the built environment. Through Studies to Treat or Prevent Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes (STOPP-T2D), she facilitates school-based environmental nutrition and physical education interventions targeted toward reducing T2D risk factors in minority youth populations. Previously, she managed several research projects at the University of Virginia, assessing the links between neighborhood location and community health services. She also collaborated on the regional planning commission's hazard mitigation plan. Prior to that, she worked in the Transportation practice at ICF Consulting, where she contracted to EPA and a range of other federal and local government offices.