Remedies for diet-related diseases expand when Food is Medicine
USC features the work of Food is Medicine researchers, who are developing a map to better identify areas where people disproportionately experience a lack of access to food.
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USC features the work of Food is Medicine researchers, who are developing a map to better identify areas where people disproportionately experience a lack of access to food.
Since she joined USC last fall, the HPEB assistant professor has continued working to understand the sexual and reproductive health needs of LGBTQ+ people and is looking at abortion in the United States’ changing environment.
Research led by HPEB associate professor Hala Ghattas and published in Public Health Nutrition has revealed what may be a major factor in the rise of childhood obesity in the Middle East and North Africa.
A recent study led by HPEB assistant professor Leila Larson and published in Public Health Nutrition has shed more light on the interplay of factors that cause anemia in mothers and children in low- and middle-income countries.
Molly Talbot-Metz has now spent more than half her life in South Carolina. The Mary Black Foundation President/CEO's journey to improving health in her adopted state began when she was a teen growing up in Syracuse, New York and recently resulted in her receipt of the Order of the Palmetto.
Assistant professor Xueying Yang has been awarded another $400K NIH grant to support her HIV research – this time from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.