Tag: Texas A&M
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Texas A&M’s Co-Director of Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture elected to National Academy of Medicine
Seguin-Fowler is one of four National Academy members who hold leadership capacity within the IHA. Other members include IHA Director Patrick Stover, Ph.D., National Academy of Science, IHA Co-Director Regan Bailey, Ph.D., National Academy of Medicine, and IHA Maternal/Child Cohort Study Scientific Project Director Catharine (Cathy) Ross, Ph.D., National Academy of Medicine.
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Texas A&M’s Director of Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture calls for a comprehensive approach to combat diet-related chronic diseases and rising health care costs
Dr. Patrick Stover testifies in front of full House Committee on Agriculture as part of “Innovation, Employment, Integrity, and Health: Opportunities for Modernization in Title IV” hearing.
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Aggies tout agricultural research in combating diet-related chronic disease
The event, “Ag Solves When Aggies Solve,” highlighted how Texas A&M AgriLife researchers rapidly are advancing this idea and featured keynote addresses by Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Agriculture chief scientist and undersecretary for research, education and economics, and Howarth “Howdy” Bouis, Ph.D., 2016 World Food Prize laureate.
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Journal of Nutrition: Sex Differences Across the Life Course: A Focus On Unique Nutritional and Health Considerations among Women
Dr. Regan Bailey was a co-author for this editor’s choice article…
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Dr. MacMillan Uribe, Study provides new insights into how acculturation affects what teens eat
“Looking at dietary acculturation in teens is important because they may experience acculturation differently from adults,” said research team leader Alexandra L. MacMillan Uribe, PhD, RDN, assistant professor at the Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA). “For example, they may be more susceptible to the influence of their peer groups….”
