Welcome to the Nutrition Consortium at the University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health.
The Consortium is comprised of outstanding interdisciplinary scholars and stakeholders engaged in meaningful research and transformational activities in the field of nutrition. Researchers in the Consortium work to understand how nutritional components interact with a variety of contexts, including political, physical, economic, and social structures.
SC FiM CORE is a multidisciplinary research initiative dedicated to advancing Food is Medicine science across South Carolina. By bringing together researchers, healthcare systems, community organizations, and policymakers, the group seeks to generate rigorous evidence on the effectiveness, implementation, and sustainability of Food is Medicine interventions.
Become a part of the USC Nutrition Consortium's interdisciplinary scholars for networking opportunities, seminar events and more!
Enid Keseko already knew she was passionate about improving health through food and nutrition when she discovered she could use the public health field to extend her impact even further.
Victoria Adebiyi graduates with a PhD in HPEB this month after completing her global health dissertation project. She's currently working on manuscripts that describe what she learned during a mixed-methods study she conducted in Nigeria.
Keren Herran graduates this month and she's ready to change the world. The global health researcher gained a breadth and depth of international research experience during her PhD program.
Exercise science assistant professor Elizabeth Adams is using her expertise in healthy dietary patterns among children and families to lead a five-year study focused on improving nutrition through SNAP.
Health promotion, education, and behavior assistant professor Leila Larson conducts her nutrition-focused maternal and child health research all over the world, and South Carolinians will soon benefit from her expertise.
USC features Jihong Liu's MCH research into developmental origins of disease - how the mother's health in pregnancy affects her children's - as well as how a woman's experiences during pregnancy can affect her own health for a lifetime.
USC researchers recently reviewed the existing literature on diet-induced inflammation, climate change, and food systems - finding numerous scientific papers focusing on each of these areas but very few that looked at their overlap.
USC features exercise science assistance professor Katie Hirsch's efforts to make health research more inclusive by incorporating new methods to include women and remove barriers that have deterred scientists from including them previously.
Leila Larson has been awarded nearly three million dollars from the NIH to lead a five-year study aimed at improving childhood health and development.
At USC, scientists come together from public health, nursing, psychology, social work, retail, economics, student health, medicine, computer science, engineering, and earth and ocean sciences.