Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
NSP
October 1, 2019
Husky cookbook aims to connect UW community through food storytelling
What food or dish best represents you? Behind every dish lies a great story. A new Husky cookbook project launching this month aims to showcase how our identities are shaped by food traditions and culture. The project, being led by three graduate students in the Nutritional Sciences Program in the UW School of Public Health…
September 30, 2019
Lina Pinero Walkinshaw
Lina Pinero Walkinshaw’s work focuses on community and population health, primarily centered on policies, systems, and environmental changes that support access to affordable nutritious foods and beverages for lower-income communities. She has training and experience in both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, community-based participatory research, project management, and database design and management.
Yona Sipos
Dr. Yona Sipos works at the intersection of food systems, community engaged scholarship, sustainability, and equity. Her PhD in Integrated Studies in Land & Food Systems at the University of British Columbia investigated long-term partnerships critical for community food systems. She contributed to food system sustainability reports for the City of Vancouver, BC, and Prince…
Elizabeth Kirk
Dr. Elizabeth Kirk is a teaching professor in epidemiology, a core faculty member in the Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health Program (formerly Nutritional Sciences Program), and associate dean of education for the School of Public Health. Kirk teaches NUTR 200 Nutrition for Today, NUTR 406 Sports Nutrition, and NUTR 520 Nutrition and Metabolism. Interests include:…
Anne-Marie Gloster
Anne-Marie Gloster has always been fascinated by food and kitchen environments. A North Carolina native, she was the first undergraduate at North Carolina State University to combine degrees in Food Science with Human Nutrition. She then obtained a Masters of Public Health degree at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; ultimately becoming the Chief…
September 23, 2019
Cristen L. Harris
Cristen Harris joined the core faculty of the Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health Program (formerly the Nutritional Sciences Program) and Department of Epidemiology in 2019, and has three decades of experience as a clinician, educator, program director, and researcher. She teaches courses in Nutrition for Today, Nutrition Education, Physical Activity in Health and Disease, Maternal and Pediatric…
Michelle Averill
Michelle Averill is a Teaching Professor in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington and director of the Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health Program. She is also the associate director of the Graduate Coordinated Program in Dietetics and a member of several professional organizations, including the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral…
September 18, 2019
Anne Lund
Anne Lund, MPH, RDN, FAND is the director of the University of Washington’s Graduate Coordinated Program in Dietetics and the director of the MPH Nutrition degree. She joined the core faculty of the Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health program (formerly Nutritional Sciences Program) and Department of Epidemiology in 2009. Prior to becoming the dietetic program…
Students honored at program celebration
On Friday, August 23, we gathered to celebrate the work and achievements of students who will graduate in 2019 from our PhD, master’s, and Graduate Coordinated Program in Dietetics programs. Poster sessions were presented by candidates who completed concentrations in Medical Nutrition Therapy or Public Health, and students were also individually recognized by faculty, staff…
September 3, 2019
Shirley A.A. Beresford
Dr. Beresford’s research interests are in the areas of nutritional epidemiology, social epidemiology, and chronic disease prevention. Her work is specifically designed to improve the scientific basis for public health policy and recommendations concerning dietary intake, physical activity, and folic acid status. She has been Principal Investigator on numerous individual and group randomized trials of…
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