Health Policy Research Seminar: Stella Yi, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Population Health, NYU

Topic: Harvest Share: A Community-Centered, Multi-Level Strategy To Improve Diet.

Harvest Share is a partnered program across academia, 10 farm and community-based partners, 2 elementary schools and consultants specializing in language justice and social marketing. Harvest Share is an community-centered, multi-level strategy to improve diet for the community of Sunset Park, Brooklyn and the program is designed for English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Bangla-speakers.  In this presentation Stella Yi - the PI of the NIH grant that funds this study will walk the audience through the formative research process to get to this point including the program foundation driven by participatory systems science, provide a program overview and updates on progress

Stella Yi is an Associate Professor at NYU Langone, Department of Population Health, Section for Health Equity.  Dr. Yi is a researcher focused on social justice for Asian American and immigrant communities. Her specific content area expertise is on multi-sector, community-partnered and culturally appropriate initiatives focused on nutrition and cardio-metabolic disease, the collection of disaggregated race/ethnicity data at the local and state levels, and application of inclusive research practices.  Dr. Yi received her Masters in Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology/Social Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and her doctorate in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.