Building healthy and sustainable local food systems using network and systems science
Visiting speaker
Kayla de la Haye
Research Scientist, University of Southern California
Past Talk
Hybrid
Monday
Mar 11, 2024
Watch video
2:00 pm
EST
Virtual
177 Huntington Ave.
11th floor
11th floor
Devon House
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK
Whole-of-system’ interventions that are community-led and target individual, social, and structural risk factors are needed to make meaningful improvements in complex public health issues, like food and nutrition insecurity and poor diets. In this talk I’ll discuss how we draw on network science, systems science, and novel data sources and analytics, to understand, monitor, and plan changes to food systems. I’ll also describe the critical role of multi-disciplinary and multi-sector teams in conducting this research and prioritizing the translation of research findings into practice.
About the speaker
About the speaker
Kayla de la Haye is a scientist at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Center for Economic and Social Research, where she directs the Institute for Food System Equity. She works to promote health and prevent disease by applying social network analysis and systems science to key public health issues.
Her research engages family and community social networks, and broader social determinants of health, to promote healthy eating, nutrition security, and prevent chronic disease. It also explores the role of social networks in group problem solving in families, teams, and coalitions. This work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the American Heart Association.
Dr. de la Haye was previously an Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at USC, and worked as an Associate Behavioral/Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation. She currently serves as Vice President of the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA), and in 2018, she received the INSNA Freeman Award for significant contributions to the study of social structure. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Kayla de la Haye is a scientist at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Center for Economic and Social Research, where she directs the Institute for Food System Equity. She works to promote health and prevent disease by applying social network analysis and systems science to key public health issues.
Her research engages family and community social networks, and broader social determinants of health, to promote healthy eating, nutrition security, and prevent chronic disease. It also explores the role of social networks in group problem solving in families, teams, and coalitions. This work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the American Heart Association.
Dr. de la Haye was previously an Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at USC, and worked as an Associate Behavioral/Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation. She currently serves as Vice President of the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA), and in 2018, she received the INSNA Freeman Award for significant contributions to the study of social structure. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
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