Food and Public Health
A Practical Introduction
Edited by Allison Karpyn
Author Information
Allison Karpyn, PhD, is Associate Professor of Education and Behavioral Health and Nutrition at the University of Delaware; she is also Associate Director of the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy at the University of Delaware and Associate Fellow for the Center for Public Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania. Karpyn previously served as the Director of Research and Evaluation at The Food Trust, a pioneering nonprofit in Philadelphia. Her research focuses on understanding how to increase access to affordable nutritious foods, healthy food purchasing and consumption behavior, especially among children.
Contributors:
Cathy Banwell, PhD
Associate Professor
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Research School of Population Health
Australian National University
Canberra
Australia
Alison G.M. Brown, PhD, MS
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
Eric E. Calloway, PhD, RD
Research Scientist
Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
Omaha, NeE
Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy
Drexel University
Dornsife School of Public Health
Philadelphia, PA
Emily Contois, MA, MLA, MPH
PhD Candidate, American Studies
Brown University
Providence, RI
Anastasia Day, MA
Hagley Scholar and PhD Candidate, History
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Sara C. Folta, PhD
Associate Professor, Nutrition
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Tufts University
Boston, MA
Isabella Francis-Granderson, PhD
Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension
The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
Katherine Gray-Donald, PhD
Associate Professor (retired)
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
McGill University
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
Canada
Erecia Hepburn, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
School of Chemistry and Environmental Life Sciences
University of the Bahamas
Nassau
Bahamas
Gordon M. Hickey, PhD
Associate Professor,
Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
Canada
Molly Knowles, MPH
Research Manager, Department of Health Management and Policy
Drexel University
Dornsife School of Public Health
Philadelphia, PA
Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc
Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy
Director and Senior Scientist, Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory
Tufts University
Boston, MA
Kristen Lowitt, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
Canada
Chandra A. Madramootoo, PhD, P.Eng
James McGill Professor, Bioresource Engineering Department
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
McGill University
Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC
Canada
Melissa K. Melby, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
College of Health Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
F. Bailey Norwood, PhD
Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
Courtney A. Parks, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
Omaha, NE
Leroy Phillip, PhD
Associate Professor (retired)
Department of Animal Science
McGill University
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
Canada
Arlette Saint Ville, PhD
Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
Canada
Kelebogile T. Setiloane, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Health & Nutrition
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Joanna Simmons
Member
Witnesses to Hunger
Penns Grove, NJ
Teresa M. Smith, PhD
Research Scientist
Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
Omaha, NE
Wakako Takeda, PhD
Lecturer
Institute for Population and Social Research
Mahidol University
Salaya, Nakhon Pathom
Thailand
Amy L. Yaroch, PhD
Executive Director
Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
Omaha, NE