Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
Master of Public Health
October 28, 2018
Food Insecurity Screening at Seattle Children’s Adolescent Medicine Clinic: Current Methods and Recommendations
In King County, 11% of 8th grade students, 12% of 10th grade students, and 16% of 12th grade students reported food insecurity (FI) in 2016 on the Washington Healthy Youth Survey. Students screened positively for FI if they reported their family had reduced or skipped meals in the last 12 months because there wasn’t enough…
The Seattle Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: A Case Study in Policy
Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes have been proposed as a means of curbing the tide of obesity and diabetes in the United States.1 Despite their public health potential, many of these proposed taxes have been met with intense opposition by the beverage industry. The Seattle SSB tax (CB 118965) was proposed in by Mayor Ed Murray…
Chris Bensen
What did you do before you went into nutrition? I’m from a small rural town on New Hampshire’s seacoast. Growing up there, the extent of my career knowledge was limited to being things like a doctor, teacher, veterinarian, or astronaut. When I started college at McGill in Montreal, I didn’t see a clear career path,…
October 12, 2018
Alicia Yang, RDN
Why did you decide to pursue an MPH in Nutritional Sciences? I was working as a clinical and research dietitian at the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, and I noticed that many of my patients were tackling similar issues. They were living and working in an environment that did not support health, they had difficulty accessing…
October 10, 2018
Courtney Shupp
What are you most passionate about in public health? The intersection of food waste, hunger, food insecurity and food access. As an undergrad at Cornell, I helped to recover food from college dining halls and deliver it to a nonprofit in downtown Ithaca. They would distribute the food to people in the community who needed it….
July 6, 2018
Resource Development for Cafeteria Operators Implementing WA DOH Healthy Nutrition Guidelines
Development of Sports Nutrition Handouts for Ultimate Frisbee Athletes
July 4, 2018
Development of a food safety plan for GAP certification at the UW Farm
July 3, 2018
Resource Development for the CDC Sodium Reduction in Communities Program Grant
July 2, 2018
Using Traditional Ground-Truthing to Assess the Food Environment in Three Seattle Neighborhoods
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