Melissa Fuster, PhD
@MelissaFuster
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Scientist-Teacher-Writer | Assoc Prof @TulaneSPHTM | Editorial Coll @Gastronomica | Author @UNC_Press #FoodPolicy #Nutrition #PublicHealth #ImpSci #HealthEquity
New Orleans, LA
Joined April 2014
Spending some time with food designers at #EFOOD24 in Barcelona, sharing my work applying design to co-develop policy-based ideas to facilitate healthier eating through restaurants. And learning new approaches to promoting healthy & environmental sustainable food behaviors.
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So thankful for the opportunity to share my work at @BC3Research this week. Looking forward to exploring future collaborations! (Thanks, @mfranco_bc3, for hosting me!)
šThanks, @MelissaFuster, for an enlightening #BC3Seminar! Your exploration of how U.S. food systems drive diet-related health inequities is crucial for shaping future policies. Let's push for equitable food access! #FoodSystems #Food
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A Puerto Rico Reading List: Understanding its multilayered, complicated history and status as a US territory, as well as its diverse cultural heritage. https://t.co/50uhXa08ng
#PuertoRico
uncpressblog.com
The following reading list showcases a fraction of books that have been published by UNC Press over many decades regarding Puerto Rico's multilayered, complicated history and status as a US territo...
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Looking forward to this talk next week, sharing work supported @TaylorTulane, my @nih_nhlbi K01, and my stellar @TulaneSPHTM student team! Thankful for the invitation, @mfranco_bc3 and @BC3Research!
šJoin us for #BC3Seminar with @MelissaFuster from @Tulane University as she discusses how U.S. food systems contribute to diet-related health inequities. Donāt miss this important conversation! š Register here: https://t.co/RU8UoDmoVW
#FoodSystems
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E. COLI OUTBREAK: CDC is investigating 49 illnesses in 10 states linked to McDonaldās Quarter Pounder hamburgers. If you ate a Quarter Pounder hamburger from McDonaldās and have severe symptoms of E. coli, contact your healthcare provider. https://t.co/g87itkupCQ
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#academicjobs š£ #implementationscience or #SystemsScience faculty position at @TulaneSPHTM. Join an amazing group of colleagues in a very special city, #NewOrleans
#jobposting
#publichealth
#impsci
https://t.co/vYojpqYp98
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Moving to action through our Design Dialogue, hosted by @TulaneArch, getting us to dream across disciplines on how to make edible green infrastructure possible. Thanks to @TaylorTulane for facilitating along w/ our students and colleagues from #TulaneNutrition
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And we closed the day with the opening of Echoes from the Hive.
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The symposium was preceded by a visit to the NO Sewage and Water Board green roof.
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Digesting two days of conversations around green infrastructure and food in New Orleans. So grateful to all that joined us at @TulaneSPHTM! Featuring local work alongside the success story of @TorontoMet green roof farm. š§µ #TulaneNutrition
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#NewOrleans! Join us for this week Thu 10/10 + Fri 10/11 for our green infrastructure, #foodsystems, & Climate resiliency events this week @Tulane @TulaneSPHTM in collab w/ @TulaneArch + @TaylorTulane. Info: https://t.co/yecR1KBdCF & https://t.co/J8nzrHWy2p
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Just published! š„³ Not an easy one to write, pushing the application of #designthinking + #implementationscience in new, complex community settings. Thanks to my @nih_nhlbi K01, @LARiAProject partners & coauthors! @MAHandley @uricora @LourdesCastro
https://t.co/uL34snoypc
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I had the pleasure of moderating this @cunyurbanfood #ResilientKitchen book panel discussion now viewable via YouTube! Sharing more about the experience via my blog, including associated resources. #food
#COVID
#foodpolicy
#PublicHealth
https://t.co/MnkFO6xXyH
melissafuster.wordpress.com
Last month I had the privilege of moderating a book panel discussion for Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis: Essays and Recipes, winner of the 2024 James Beard Foundā¦
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This journal is always better on hard copy! So wonderful to see this out in the world. @Gastronomica
#foodstudies
#publications
#academicwriting
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I had the pleasure of editing the new issue of @Gastronomica- now live! Ck my ed letter, āThe Duality of Food: Reflections on Power, Inequity, and Liberationā & articles exploring this theme through restaurants, gender, and colonialism. https://t.co/6cGVfIcsui
#foodstudies
gastronomica.org
Summer 2024, Volume 24 Number 2 Table of Contents
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Back in the host chair for @Gastronomica @Heritage_Radio #podcast, in conversation with Julieta Flores Jurado on #restaurants, equity in the industry, & food writing as activism. https://t.co/rxTROERC2z
#FoodRadio #foodstudies
heritageradionetwork.org
What do the stories we tell about food reveal about the moment in which they are written?Ā Gastronomicaās Melissa Fuster is joined by literary scholar turned food studies scholarĀ Julieta Flores...
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Join me Jun 24 as I moderate this @cunyurbanfood book talk on āResilient Kitchensā (2024 @beardfoundation Book Award winner, food issues & advocacy) w/ essays on US immigrant lives pre/post the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. Registeršš½ https://t.co/Q3JR5koEHWā¦
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While I got no photos, our @ASFS_org/@afhvs_org conference was a delight! So thankful to be included and getting to learn more from these food scholars working in #NewOrleans
#foodstudies
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The @asfs_org / @afhvs_org annual meetings are quite special. Where else can you learn about farmers in the middle, and then have the chance to taste climate change through wine (along with a social network analysis). So thankful for this community! And, I got to see my book!
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My doctoral student, Maria MuƱoz, sharing next steps from our work examining disaster response plans & food security (in collab with ā¦@DrSariaHassanā©) at the ā¦@ASFS_orgā© ā¦@afhvs_orgā© Right to Food Meeting. ā¦@TulaneSPHTMā© #TulaneNutrition
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