Dr. Meg Bruening is a professor and Head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include public health nutrition promotion and obesity prevention for youth and families. Major topics in these areas include food insecurity risk and resiliency factors, developing and evaluating public health nutrition interventions, including school- and community-based programs, and the social epidemiology/socio-environmental influences of eating behaviors, including the role of friendship networks/social support for healthy eating.
Research Keywords & Expertise
Food Policy
Health Promotion
School Nutrition
Social Determinants Of...
Social Epidemiology
food insecurity
Community-based partic...
Social Interactions
Eating behaviors
Underserved population...
Maternal child health
Friendship networks
Ecological momentary a...
MHealth for underserve...
Group randomized trial...
Fingerprints
22%
food insecurity
15%
Eating behaviors
6%
School Nutrition
6%
Ecological momentary assessments
5%
Health Promotion
5%
Social Determinants Of Health
5%
Community-based participatory research
5%
Maternal child health
5%
Friendship networks
Short Biography
Dr. Meg Bruening is a professor and Head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include public health nutrition promotion and obesity prevention for youth and families. Major topics in these areas include food insecurity risk and resiliency factors, developing and evaluating public health nutrition interventions, including school- and community-based programs, and the social epidemiology/socio-environmental influences of eating behaviors, including the role of friendship networks/social support for healthy eating.