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There is an increasing interest in understanding food environments and the associations between food environments and health. Food environment includes accessibility to retail food stores, restaurants, and other food sources, and racial, socioeconomic, and cultural disparities to access these food sources; it also includes the availability, quality, price, labeling, and advertising of food products. With the continuous advances in theory, data, and modeling techniques, research in food environments and related health impacts has seen great progress. This in-person session invites papers that focus on uncertainties and challenging issues in measuring food environments and their relationship with health outcomes. These challenges and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:

• Innovative methods on geographic accessibility to food outlets, including activity space spatio-temporal models, etc. to understand the role of food environment exposure on health across space and time.
• Novel methods on measuring socioeconomic, cultural, racial/ethnic disparities to food outlets.
• Evaluating consumer food environment (e.g., food availability, prices, quality, and advertising) in deprived vs. non-deprived communities.
• Individual-level research of urban food environment and health outcome
• Longitudinal and experimental/quasi-experimental research designs in food environments or health outcomes.
• The uncertainties in measuring food environments and their relationship with health.
• How do land use/cover or natural disasters (such as tornadoes) affect the local food environment (e.g., farmers’ markets closure) and further affect people’s health?
• How are food shopping and purchasing decisions related to food environments and health?
• Using big data (such as Twitter and Weibo) to describe and understand people’s eating habits and behaviors, as well as attitudes towards healthy eating in urban and rural settings.
• How do behavioral change and weight loss interventions contribute to changes in the food environment and health, as well as the intervention effectiveness?
• Targeting policy and interventions for urban food environment management to reduce health inequities.

If you are interested in joining this session, please submit your paper abstract in the 2023 AAG annual meeting website and email your paper title, abstract, and AAG PIN to the session organizers below by Dec 20, 2022:

He Jin (University of South Florida; hjin1@usf.edu)
Yongmei Lu (Texas State University, yl10@txstate.edu)

Non-Presenting Participants