Diet Disparities and Climate Change: The use of Community-Participatory Mixed Methods and Systems Science Approaches to Address their Interconnections.

Dr. Uriyoán Colón-Ramos is an investigator in public health nutrition globally, with expertise in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Dr. Colón-Ramos' research program seeks to understand and address the systemic inequities that drive diet disparities and nutrition insecurity across the Americas. She directs the Diet Disparities Lab (www.dietdisparities.com), which leverages partnerships between community and students to address the problems of diet disparities and climate change in interconnected ways. The work from the interdisciplinary teams that she leads has won the Research Into Action Award (New Connections Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation); the Faculty Research Excellence Award (Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Service), and is supported by programs in private foundations as well as federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health.