Research and tools for nutritional quality, community food systems, and the economics of food access.
The lab studies what people eat and how food reaches them, and builds tools that food banks and community programs can actually use.
Multi-source nutritional quality classifier built on Nutri-Score, NOVA, and the UK FSA traffic-light system.
Operational research on local food bank workflows, demand patterns, and economic disparities in food access. Public deliverable: the Pantry Dashboard.
A food bank's records are often wide, sparse spreadsheets that no one has time to read closely. The Pantry Dashboard turns those into capacity and demand patterns staff can act on, and it is in community pilot use now.
Front-of-pack scores disagree across systems and under-represent some diets. NutriScan brings published methods such as Nutri-Score, NOVA, and FSA traffic lights into one comparison, so a product's nutritional picture is easier to read.
Community Food Bank Efficiency studies workflows, demand patterns, and disparities in access. The work is in preparation, built on the same data the Pantry Dashboard already puts to use.