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.
Become a part of the USC Nutrition Consortium's interdisciplinary scholars for networking opportunities, seminar events and more!
Alumni with formal academic training in nutrition or experience in nutrition research, practice, or teaching can now apply to be an Alumni Affiliate of the Nutrition Consortium. Apply at the link below
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.
USC researchers are tackling the issues that underlie the women’s health care gap. Jihong Liu, professor of epidemiology in the Arnold School of Public Health, studies the impact of maternal health care for women and their children. While one branch of her research focuses on developmental origins of disease, Liu also examines how a woman’s experiences during pregnancy can affect her own health for a lifetime.
USC researchers are tackling the issues that underlie the women’s health care gap. In the Arnold School of Public Health, assistant professor Katie Hirsch is working to address the research shortage. Traditionally, scientific research took findings based on the ‘typical’ male body and extrapolated the results to apply to all people, including women. The problem, Hirsch says, is that “women are not small men.”
The University of South Carolina community banded together to raise almost $30,000 for food pantries across campus and defeat LSU in the SEC Food Fight.
Berthe Abi Zeid (PhD in HPEB student) has been awarded the Dera D. Parkinson Fellowship.
Fahmida Akter graduates in May with a PhD in HPEB and her priorities are clear: a lifelong connection to USC and an unwavering commitment to improving health, particularly for women and children in low-resource settings.
Researchers from HPEB have published a new study that challenges the use of Growth Monitoring and Promotion to detect faltering in children.
Danielle Krobath, as assistant professor of epidemiology, writes for The Conversation with Tufts University Assistant Professor of Community Health Benjamin Chrisinger about their research into safety net programs, including SNAP benefits
Five projects supported by Prisma Health Research Seed Grants will be led by Arnold School researchers in 2025.
A student in the Ph.D. in HPEB program, Gitanjali Lall uses principles of developmental psychology to improve community health and fundamentals of public health intervention research to improve early childhood development.
Danielle Krobath's goal is to prevent and eliminate nutrition-related chronic disease disparities among children and families, and the epidemiology assistant professor has adopted a very broad lens to guide her approach.
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.
Honors student Audrey Richards will not only have the words "Food Policy and Research" on her diploma when she graduates next May, she'll have the expertise to pursue a career in the field.
Victoria Adebiyi has big goals. The Ph.D. in Health Promotion Education and Behavior candidate plans to improve maternal and child nutrition and health in low- and middle-income countries after her 2025 graduation - continuing the path she began a decade ago in Nigeria.
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.