Marisa Tsai, researcher at the University of California Nutrition Policy Institute, received the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Cheri Pies award for her doctoral work to examine intergenerational transmission of food security. Tsai began her work as an NPI researcher in May 2018 and recently started her doctoral studies in Epidemiology in Fall 2021 at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her project will examine intergenerational transmission of food security using data from the National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development National Growth and Health Study, a longitudinal study which began in 1987. The Cheri Pies award–totaling $3,500–is presented to one UC Berkeley School of Public Health graduate student each year who best applies any of the core concepts of the Life Course Theory–which approaches health as an integrated trajectory of growth and development where social, economic, and physical environments impact individual and community health–to their dissertation or other type of scholarly project.
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