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Home > Enhancing Opportunities in Distressed and Low-Wealth Communities > RIDGE > Investments > by_theme
Past SRDC Funded Projects
RIDGE Grant Recipients
by Theme
Obesity and Nutritional Issues Among Adults and Children
Women, Infants, and the Food Environment: Influences on Food Security and Obesity (2003)
Barbara Laraia, University of California, San Francisco
Effect of Weight History, Resource Cycling and Fast Food (2003)
Carol E. O'Neil and Pamela A. Monroe, Louisiana State University
The
Economic Impact of Obesity in the South: Assessing Medical Spending
Attributable to Obesity (2003)
Jerome Kolbo, Amal J. Khoury and
Wendy Bounds, University of Southern Mississippi
Economic
Burden of Obesity Among Uninsured Individuals in the Rural South (2003)
Eric
Scorsone, University of Kentucky
Prevalence and Predictors of Child Obesity in North Carolina: Implications for Head Start Programs (2004)
Esther C. Okeiyi, North Carolina Central University
Relationship of Child Body Mass Index to Parental Child Feeding Practices, Weight Perceptions, and Personal Eating Behaviors Among 3-5 Year Olds Attending Head Start (2004)
Wendy Bounds, Carol L. Connell, Mary Frances
Nettles, and Kristi Lofton, University of Southern Mississippi
Maternal Employment in Early Childhood and the Risk of Overweight in Adolescence (2004)
Atsuko Nonoyama and Ross Santell, Alcorn
State University
C. Shannon Stokes, Pennsylvania State University
Pippa Simpson and Jeffrey Gossett, University of Arkansas
The Incidence of Overweight and Obesity in Southern Adolescents (2002)
Mellie L. Warner, Clemson University
Food Assistance Challenges Impacting Hispanics and African American in the Rural South
Food Stamp Receipt by Families with Noncitizen Householders in Rural Texas Counties (2001)
Steve H. Murdock, Director and Principal Investigator
Tami Swenson, Research Associate and Co- Investigator
Steve White, Assistant Research Scientist and Co-Investigator
Contextual Determinants of Food Security in Southern Hispanic and African-American Neighborhoods (2001)
Margaret E. Bentley, Soyna Jones, and Janice Dodds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Assessing the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity Among Limited Resource Latino and Non-Latino Families
in Virginia (2002)
Elena L. Serrano and Ruby H. Cox, Virginia Tech
Participation of Latino/Hispanic Population in the Food Stamp Program in the South (2003)
Safdar Muhammad, Tennessee State University
Fisseha Tegegne, Tennessee State University, CARP
Understanding the Role of Tiendas (Latino grocery stores) in the Nutritional Habits and Obesity Risk of Latino
Families (2004)
Guadalupe X. Ayala, University of North Carolina
Barbara Laraia, University of California, San Francisco
Food Environment Quality and Food Choice in CLusters of Colonias in Hidalgo County of the Texas Rio Grande (2005)
Joseph R. Sharkey, Scott Horel, Monica Wendel, and Li Zhu, School of Rural Public Health, TAMUSHSC;
A Comparison of Food Insecurity Levels and Weight Status among Rural and Urban Residing Latino/Hispanics in North Carolina (2005)
Lauren Haldeman, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Examining Relations Among Obesity, Food Insecurity, Stress, and Emotional Eating Among Low-Income African American Women (2006)
Carol Connell and
Kristi Lofton, University of Southern Mississippi
Food insecurity and emotional well-being among single mothers in the rural South (2005)
Andrew Zekeri, Tuskegee University
Analyzing and Assessing Impacts of State and Federal Food Assistance Policies
A County-Level Analysis of Food Stamp Caseload Changes in Tennessee (2000)
Fisseha Tegegne, Tennessee State University, CARP
Food Stamp Dynamics Across Rural and Urban Landscapes in the Era of Welfare Reform (2000)
Domenico Parisi and Duane A. Gill, Mississippi State University
Assessing Food Security and Related Welfare Reform Outcomes in Two Southern States (1998)
Pamela A. Monroe and Carol E. O'Neil, Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Janet Marsh, Clemson University and the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Private Food Assistance in the Deep South: Agency Profiles and Directors' Perceptions f Needs and Opportunities under Charitable Choices (2001)
Suzie T. Cashwell, Patricia Duffy and Joe Molnar, Auburn University
John P. Bartkowski, Mississippi State University
Assessing the Food Security Status of Nonprofit Assistance Recipients in Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee (2003)
Odili Onianwa, Alabama A&M University
Godfrey Ejimakor, North Carolina A&T State University
Fisseha Tegegne, Tennessee State University
and Andrew Zekeri, Tuskegee University
Meeting the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans: A "daunting challenge" for food-stamp recipients in Southeast Louisiana (2005)
Carol E. O'Neil and Jeffery Gillespie, Louisiana State University
Exploring Health Literacy as a Factor
Contributing to Adoption of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines Among Adults
in the Mississippi Delta (2006)
Jamie Zoellner, Wendy Bounds and Carol L.
Connell, University of Southern Mississippi
Community Capacity and Food Insecurity in the Era of Welfare Reform (2001)
Domenico Parisi and Duane A. Gill, Mississippi State University
Evaluating Factors Associated with Rural Oklahoma Older Americans Act Participants Ability to Shop, Cook and Eat (2004)
Janice R. Hermann, Oklahoma State University
Kimberly Quigley, Oklahoma Department of Human Services
Factors Shaping Participation in Food Assistance Programs
Impact of Local Food Prices on the Relationship between Food Stamp Program Participation and Bodyweight Status of Adults in the South (2006)
Qi (Harry) Zhang, PhD, Old Dominion University
Zhu (Adam) Chen, PhD, University of Chicago
Geographic Variation in Food Stamp and Other Assistance Program Participation Rates: Identifying Poverty Pockets in the South (2003)
William Hoyt and Frank A. Scott, Jr., University of Kentucky
Food Assistance and Working Poor Families in the Rural South (2002)
Bradford F. Mills and Christiana Hilmer, Virginia Tech
The Arkansas Child and Adult Care Food Program: A Study of Factors Associated with Program Participation (2001)
Richard Huddleston, MPA, Research Director
Yetty Shobo, MPA, Health Policy Analyst
Examining Food Insecurity and Hunger
Food Security and Feeding Strategies (2006)
Barbara Laraia, University of California, San Francisco
Assessing the Relationship Between Food Insecurity Events and Food Assistance Programs in Two Different Public Housing Communities (2002)
Mesfin Bezuneh and Zelealem Yiheyis, Clark Atlanta University
Food Insecurity and Hunger among Home Bound Older Adults in the Rural South (2001)
Mary Anne Salmon, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Structural Model of the Relationships of Food Insufficiency to Disease Risk and Outcomes among Adults from NHANES III (2000)
Carol Lawson Connell and Kathy Yadrick, The University of Southern Mississippi
L. Joseph Su, Louisiana State University Medical Center
Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger and its Affect on Health Among Participants in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Program in Tennessee (2000)
Betty Greer, University of Tennessee
Exploring Food Access, Quality and Cost
Transient and Persistent Food Poverty in the Rural South (2005)
Bradford Mills and Everett Peterson, Virginia Tech
Retail Concentration, Food Deserts and Food Disadvantaged Communities in Rural America (2002)
Troy C. Blanchard, Mississippi State University
Thomas A. Lyson, Cornell University
Is it just food? Geographic Differences in the Cost of Living (2005)
Julie N. Zimmerman and Sunny (Seonok) Ham, University of Kentucky
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