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Food security

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Faculty Directors

Natasha Pilkauskas

Associate Faculty Director, Poverty Solutions; Professor of Public Policy
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Natasha Pilkauskas is associate faculty director at Poverty Solutions and a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Her research considers how demographic, social safety net, and economic shi...
Natasha Pilkauskas
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Katherine Bauer

Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences
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734-763-2546
Katherine (Kate) W. Bauer is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on the prevention of childhood obesity, which severely disproportionately impacts children in poverty. Much of her work focuses on the role of families in children's and adolescent...
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Sarah Burgard

Director, Population Studies Center; Professor of Sociology; Research Professor, Population Studies Center; Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology (by courtesy)
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Sarah Burgard is a professor of sociology and, by courtesy, of epidemiology and public policy at the University of Michigan. She is also a research professor in and director of the Population Studies Center and a research affiliate in the Survey Rese...
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Lesli Hoey

Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
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734-936-0212
Lesli Hoey uses food systems as a lens to study the socio-political and institutional factors that mediate the ability of citizen planners and professional planners to achieve a more equitable, sustainable and healthy society. She is particularly int...
Lesli Hoey
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Carmel Price

Associate Professor of Sociology, U-M Dearborn
Carmel Price is an environmental sociologist with an interdisciplinary background. She is an associate professor of sociology and an affiliate faculty of the Center for Arab American Studies and the Women and Gender Studies programs at the University...
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Natalie Sampson

Professor of Health and Human Services; Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity; UM-Dearborn
Natalie Sampson conducts community-based research to study social and physical environments and their effects on health inequities. To this end, she works to bring interdisciplinary evidence to climate change, land use, and infrastructure planning ef...
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Funded faculty research

Identifying the recipe for success

January 2019 - December 2019
Can a new cooking class in a community health center increase participation in existing center programs and build core skills to decrease food insecurity among low-income patients?
Man shops for groceries
Funded faculty research

The AfricanFuturist Greenhouse

January 2020 - December 2020
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Audrey Bennett
This project combined the African traditions of generative economy with contemporary technology design to create an AfricanFuturist greenhouse, located at the African Bead Museum in Southwest Detroit.
Professor stands outside the African Futurist Greenhouse in Detroit
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Addressing the Need and Identifying the Root Causes of the Intersection of Food and Transportation Insecurity: The City of Detroit Food Delivery Program (Re)Design

January 2020 - December 2020
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Robert C. Hampshire
Researchers supported the COVID-19 Food Delivery Program's maintenance and the (re)design, implementation, and program evaluation of the (re)design. Their recommendations helped to secure resources to double the program's capacity and sustain its implementation till 2024.
grocery bags full of food