🎧 Dietary Diversity with Dr. Gina Kennedy
🎧 Dietary Diversity with Dr. Gina Kennedy
Excited to share my latest conversation on Foodie Pharmacology! 🎙️ We discuss the pivotal role of food biodiversity in crafting healthier food systems.
A diverse diet is important for both human health and sustainable ecosystems. Our guest this week is Dr. Gina Kennedy, Director of Research, Translation and Impact for the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) and Principal Scientist with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. We discuss the importance of diet and food biodiversity, the goals of PTFI to advance scientific understanding and use of food composition data, and PTFI's efforts to promote a healthier food system. Dr. Kennedy highlights the initiative's global collaboration through Centers of Excellence and addresses how the data on food composition can help tackle global nutrition and health challenges.
This podcast is sponsored by The Periodic Table of Food Initiative in association with the American Heart Association. The views and opinions in this podcast are those of the presenters and represent the synthesis of science. For more information on the Periodic Table of Food Initiative, please visit https://foodperiodictable.org/
About Gina
Dr. Gina Kennedy is the Director of Research, Translation and Impact for the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) and Principal Scientist with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. Gina leads the development and implementation of PTFI’s research and translation strategy and works closely with PTFI Centers of Excellence and other research partners to implement, translate and disseminate research findings that advance scientific understanding and use of food composition data. Gina is passionate about food biodiversity and the role that food biodiversity can play in creating healthier food systems that nurture both people and the planet. She has a deep understanding of food-based indicators to measure diet quality and diet diversity and has worked on projects connecting diet diversity, biodiversity and food systems.
Prior to her current position, Gina has worked for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Bioversity International, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Public Health Service of Guinea and the Tungaru Central Hospital in Kiribati. During her career, she has lived for extending periods in Kiribati, Guinea and Italy and is now based in the United States. Her areas of interest include diet quality, food biodiversity, diet diversity and food systems. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Georgetown University, Washington DC, a Master of Public Health from University of Alabama, Birmingham and a PhD in Public Health Nutrition from Wageningen University, Netherlands.
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Yours in health, Dr. Quave
Cassandra L. Quave, Ph.D. is a Guggenheim Fellow, CNN Champion for Change, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, recipient of The National Academies Award for Excellence in Science Communication, and award-winning author of The Plant Hunter. Her day job is as professor and herbarium curator at Emory University School of Medicine, where she leads a group of research scientists studying medicinal plants to find new life-saving drugs from nature. She hosts the Foodie Pharmacology podcast and writes the Nature’s Pharmacy newsletter to share the science behind natural medicines. To support her effort, consider a paid or founding subscription to Nature’s Pharmacy or donation to her lab research.
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