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Who are we?
The Healthy Stores projects aim to improve health and prevent obesity and disease in low-income communities through culturally appropriate store-based interventions that increase the supply of healthy foods and promote their purchase.
Dr. Gittelsohn is a Professor in the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and serves as Principal Investigator on a number of NIH-funded food environment interventions in Baltimore and Native American communities.
View his JHSPH page here.
Lisa oversees data collection, management, and analysis for all healthy stores projects. Her research interests lie in urban food environments, food system sustainability, and the use of urban farms to alleviate food deserts.
Emma is a Doctoral Candidate and T32 Predoctoral Fellow in Human Nutrition. She serves as Project Coordinator for the Baltimore Urban food Distribution (BUD) project, and most of her work focuses on improving healthy food access and intervening in the food environment using community-based approaches and digital health strategies.
Samantha is a Doctoral Candidate and T32 Predoctoral Fellow in Human Nutrition. She serves as Project Coordinator for the Dollar Store and SAFPAS project, and her work focuses on improving food security and healthy food access through food environment interventions and policy changes.
Veronica is a community health specialist with a background in social anthropology and is a trained chef. Her primary focus is on nutrition education and health promotion programs for vulnerable populations.
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