What We Do
Our Motivating Question
How can we have effective interventions in nutrition if the communities that we wish to impact see nutrition and healthy eating as a luxury?
And how can they not? When misalignment in our messages and policies continues to de-prioritize nutrition and healthy eating?
The Diet Disparities Lab focuses on this question and has contributed to:
Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Understanding the systemic inequities that drive diet disparities and nutrition insecurity across the Americas
Community-Academic Partnerships
Documenting how to engage under-resourced communities to advocate for nutrition equity
Research into Action
Producing evidence to inform policy solutions and interventions that reflect and address the needs of the communities they are designed to impact
Bringing Communities to the Table
At our lab, we employ community-participatory and mixed methods approaches to:
1-Understand what are the structural and systems drivers of differences in diet (i.e. what we eat and drink).
2-Document what are the implications of these differences on the health, wellbeing and development of our communities.
3-Identify what needs to be done at the short, medium and long term to improve diets and their consequences.
Scientific Publications
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