USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Heewon Gray, associate professor specializing in nutrition, and COPH PhD alumnae Drs. Acadia Buro and Whitney Fung Uy attended the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior’s (SNEB) annual conference in Atlanta in July to share their research with a global group of attendees who […]

“Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience up to five times more feeding problems than their neurotypical peers,” Dr. Heewon Gray, a USF College of Public Health assistant professor, said.  Some of those feeding problems include problematic mealtime behaviors (for example, not staying seated and showing aggressive behaviors or tantrums […]

USF College of Public Health doctoral student Acadia Webber says that her public health practice is nutrition education among children and her passion is obesity prevention. It’s that passion that drove her to pursue a career in nutrition and her drive is not going unnoticed. In July, she attended the […]

USF College of Public Health researcher Russell Kirby, PhD, has contributed to two key studies with implications for the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in the U.S. population.  Both recently published studies were led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Birth Defects and Disabilities and […]