Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the project incorporates a scoping review, participatory systems dynamic modeling, and a Delphi study to achieve the following outcomes:

• Explain the multiple pathways linking anti-black and anti-indigenous racism and other forms of structural oppression within the food system (and related systems) to inequities in food/nutrition security and diet-related chronic disease outcomes.
• Understand the mechanisms linking food justice/sovereignty (and broader equity efforts), community/family resilience, and positive mental and physical health outcomes in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations.
• Inform the development of a community-driven, trauma-informed, BIPOC-centered research agenda regarding programmatic/policy interventions to promote food justice/sovereignty and address inequities in food and nutrition insecurity and diet-related chronic disease outcomes.

Current students: The Lab may have Undergraduate Research Assistant positions dedicated to the scoping review and other opportunities to expand the evidence-base and engage/uplift the voice of the lived experience to help inform the development of policy and community action to promote food justice and equitable ownership, leadership, and benefits for BIPOC communities. Please indicate your interest using this form.

This research, currently in evidence synthesis and project development phases, sits at the intersection of food and populations impacted by incarceration. The research aims to understand how carceral food systems and procurement (i.e., food sourcing) interventions function, how individuals interact with the prison food system while in prison, and how individuals navigate food access during re-entry.

Current students: The Lab may have Undergraduate Research Assistant positions in this project. Please indicate your interest using this form.

This project falls under the umbrella of Dr. Odoms-Young's work as Feeding America's inaugural Visiting Racial Equity Scholar, with the goal of creating, piloting, and revising pan Equity Self-Assessment for the charitable food sector.

The Lab is currently seeking a postdoctoral scholar for this project.

Current students: The Lab may have Undergraduate Research Assistant positions in this project. Please indicate your interest using this form.

This research, currently in evidence synthesis and project development phases, is designed to identify the multi-level determinants of diet-related behavior in BIPOC youth of color with autism and/or intellectual and development disabilities (IDD), using Bronfenbrenner's socio-ecological model.

Current students: The Lab may have Undergraduate Research Assistant positions in this project. Please indicate your interest using this form.

In this scoping review, the team aims to assess health equity principles in precision nutrition research. Precision nutrition aims to develop nutrition recommendations for people’s varying circumstances and biological characteristics, including one's economic, social, and behavioral characteristics, genetics, microbiome, metabolism, the food environment, and physical activity.​ There are opportunities to progress health equity in precision nutrition studies by assessing if and how health equity principles are applied throughout the course of a study.

Current students: The Lab may have Undergraduate Research Assistant positions in this project. Please indicate your interest using this form.

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