Food Health

Janet Chrzan is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the connections between social activities, dietary intake and maternal and child health outcomes.John Brett is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver with a research focus on global and local food systems, food security and food justice.

• INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICSIntroductionJanet ChrzanResearch Ethics in Food StudiesSharon Devine and John BrettPART I: PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUTRITIONChapter 1. Introduction to Public Health Nutrition MethodsEllen MesserChapter 2. Identifying and Using Indicators to Assess Program Effectiveness: Food intake, Biomarkers, and Nutritional EvaluationAlyson Young and Meredith MartenChapter 3. Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and EvaluationGretel PeltoChapter 4. Methods for Community Health InvolvementDavid Himelgreen, Sara Arias Steele, and Nancy Romero-DazaChapter 5. Understanding Famine and Severe Food EmergenciesMiriam ChaikenChapter 6. Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging ResearchJoan GrossChapter 7. Food Praxis as MethodPenny Van EsterikPART II: TECHNOLOGY AND ANALYSISChapter 8. Using Technology and Measurement Tools in Nutritional Anthropology of Food StudiesJohn BrettChapter 9. Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for Nutritional AnthropologyBarry BrentonChapter 10. Photo-Video VoiceHelen VallianatosChapter 11. Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in Research and AdvocacyMarty OtanezChapter 12. Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the InternetJames Wilson and Kristen BorreChapter 13. Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research: Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative ResearchKristen Borre and James WilsonChapter 14. Designing Food Insecurity Scales from the Ground Up: An Introduction and Working Example of Building and Testing Food Insecurity Scales in Anthropological ResearchCraig Hadley and Lesley Jo Weaver

Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin