Preventive Medicine Third Thursday Seminar – “From warning labels to healthy checkout: policy approaches to improve the food environment in the US”

Date: May 21, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Location: Hybrid (See Zoom link below)

Doctor's Office Building, 400

Presenter: Dr. Yuru Huang

Title of talk: "From warning labels to healthy checkout: policy approaches to improve the food environment in the US"

Brief bio: Yuru Huang, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Huang's research explores how food policies and different aspects of the food environment influence population dietary outcomes. She has a particular interest in digital food retail and in using data science to advance dietary public health research. She earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge in England as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and was also trained at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, Davis. Before her PhD, she worked for nearly four years at the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (now the Human Foods Program).

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