Adele is an MPH/RD and current PhD candidate at North Carolina State University. Adele’s work is focused on the discursive construction of food, particularly as it relates to the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Be sure to follow her critical nutrition blog EATHROPOLOGY at https://eathropology.com/ Education: Masters of Public Health/Registered Dietitian - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Episode Breakdown Introduction/research interests Foray into critical orientation of work Problems with current conceptualizations of the dietary guidelines Possible solutions to the problem? Background on ARSTM conference presentation @ NCA 2016 Concept behind hegemonic nutrition Bite-sized takeaways for action
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Dr. Dutta is Provost's Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Adjunct Professor at the Interactive Digital Media Institute (IDMI) at NUS, and Courtesy Professor of Communication at Purdue University. Dr. Dutta's research examines marginalization in contemporary healthcare, health care inequalities, the intersections of poverty and health experiences at the margins, political economy of global health policies, the mobilization of cultural tropes for the justification of neo-colonial health development projects, the meanings of health in the realms of marginalized experiences in highly underserved communities in the global South, and the ways in which participatory culture-centered processes and strategies are organized in marginalized contexts to bring about changes in neo-colonial structures of global oppression and exploitation. Dr. Dutta has published over 170 journal articles and book chapters, and was recently noted as the most published scholar in the academic journal Health Communication. Episode Breakdown: Introduction/research background Communicating Health: inspirations behind the book Culture-centered approaches (CCA) to nutrition Constructs of “Critical Reflexivity” in health research Challenges with instituting collective change in individualistic societies 3 axioms of “culture-centered” approach to health interventions Similar work being done in communication research Ways to help: solutions for outside academia Current projects in the works Methodological approaches to CCA research Challenges to entry: gaining access to subject populations |