Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
Master of Public Health
May 4, 2023
A Visual Adaptation of the HER Guidelines Table for Teen Feed Volunteers
Developed an “at-a-glance” version of the Healthy Eating Research (HER) Guidelines Table with example images of foods within the categories of “often”, “sometimes”, or “rarely” to help Teen Feed volunteers offer balanced meal options for their guests.
Teen Feed Meal Evaluation Tool
Created a meal evaluation tool (“Meal Checklist”) for Teen Feed volunteers to use before or after building their meals. Google Form questions both gather information on and help guide volunteers into making healthy, balanced food choices. Meal-level and high-level metrics are aggregated in an easy-to-understand Google spreadsheet (“Teen Feed Metrics”).
Teen Feed: Build Your Own Healthy Meal Challenge
Prepared a guide with a list of healthy or “choose often” options for each food category so clients can combine items they like and build their own version of a healthy, balanced meal.
Teen Feed: Population and Impact
Designed a handout for Teen Feed to utilize when soliciting donors and volunteers, which provides an overview of their adolescent client population and their unique nutrition needs and the impact the organization’s social and nutrition justice work provides to the community.
Teen Feed: Ensuring Physical and Emotional Safety at Mealtimes
Used the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) model to create a fact sheet and guide for Teen Feed volunteers to use when building their client meals. Focuses on supporting both the emotional and nutritional health of the organization’s youth clientele.
February 27, 2023
Khang Ho
What influenced you to pursue a graduate degree in nutritional sciences? My undergraduate degree in clinical nutrition from UC Davis was heavily concentrated on improving health outcomes in a clinical setting. During that time, I was involved in some public health nutrition part-time jobs and internships that set the course for my interest in improving…
February 15, 2023
Megan Fisher
What influenced you to pursue a graduate degree in nutritional sciences? Prior to attending UW, I had established a career teaching in elementary education. As I gained experience in the classroom, I witnessed first-hand the impact that poor health could have on cognition, mood, and a student’s opportunity to succeed. It became obvious to me…
January 3, 2023
Characterizing Burnout Among U.S. Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory
This study examines the prevalence of burnout in Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) and characterizes it across demographic and work-related factors.
October 10, 2022
Kunal Patel
What influenced you to pursue a graduate degree in nutritional sciences? Nutritional sciences as a field is inherently at the intersection of all my interests which include pharmacy, neuroscience, economics, exercise-science, and mental health. The field has the potential to make dramatic improvements in people’s lives by scaling-up and working with the different health science…
October 5, 2022
Anna Mowell
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT After graduating, Anna worked as an inpatient dietitian at Harborview Medical Center for two years and is now in the process of opening a private practice. While working as an inpatient dietitian at Harborview, what was a typical day like for you? Working in an inpatient setting is fast-paced and each day looks…
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