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Marcia envisions communities with equitable access to the essential resources needed for overall health and wellbeing. A community’s complex, multilevel sociopolitical environment impacts the access, affordability, and quality of basic needs, like food. It can also facilitate or hinder behaviors that promote health, highlighting the importance of understanding the mechanisms underpinning behavioral responses. Marcia’s research interests focus on the intersection of diet-related diseases and the sociopolitical determinants contributing to nutrition and health inequities in vulnerable populations. By investigating this intersection and employing behavior change science to guide intervention strategies, she aims to leverage her research to inform policy priorities and program designs that address the structural and systemic drivers. Her research will emphasize multidisciplinary collaboration, power sharing, and equity-centered approaches.
MORE ABOUT MARCIA
As a registered dietitian nutritionist with clinical, community, and leadership experience, Marcia witnessed profound nutrition and health inequities locally and nationally. This fueled her interest in the systemic drivers impacting health and galvanized her commitment to research that fosters resilient, equitable, and sustainable systems.
