Elizabeth’s research has focused on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that influence the implementation and use of nutrition policies and programs. Her current work includes supporting the local community health assessment, addressing the needs of the paraprofessional WIC workforce in New York State, and identifying relevant food-systems interventions to improve nutrition outcomes of adolescents in Kenya.
Fellows come from all over the university, bringing their particular passions and living out the public purpose of their discipline through teaching and researching in, with and for community.
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Fellows come from all over the university, bringing their particular passions and living out the public purpose of their discipline through teaching and researching in, with and for community.
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Elizabeth Fox is an Associate Professor of Practice with the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at Cornell. She specializes in public health nutrition, qualitative and mixed-methods research, and community-engaged work, and her work examines how food systems, nutrition programs and health services can better support children, families and communities they support. In collaboration with community partners, she has led participatory research projects in Tompkins County on school food programs and on maternal-child and oral health care. Her project for the fellowship focuses on translating reports generated for these community-based research projects into publications that are developed in partnership with the students and community organizations that helped design, implement, and interpret the applied projects. This work aims to bridge research, teaching and practice while demonstrating the value of community-engaged approaches for addressing public health challenges.