Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
Master of Public Health
October 28, 2018
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
July 1, 2018
Needs Assessment & Education Roll-out at 3 Snohomish Food Banks
June 15, 2018
Validating Smartphone- and Computer-based technologies with GPS for Activity Tracking
The purpose of this study was to validate a newly developed computer-assisted instrument, Karma, against a traditionally used GPS instrument and a smartphone-based application, MapMyRun (MMR), to study activity space.Previous page Next page