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.