Making a Difference: Addressing Food and Nutrition Security and Nutrition Inequities

The University of Tennessee Knoxville’s (UTK’s) strategic vision, “It Takes a Volunteer,” focuses on conducting high quality research to make life and lives better, and embodying the modern R1, land-grant university by extending the university’s ability to connect to the community.

To accomplish this, the Department of Nutrition, is helping to lead two exciting initiatives.

The first initiative, developed by the Provost and the Vice Chancellor for Research, focuses on a cluster hire which will focus on food and nutrition security.

The second initiative, developed by the college that the department is a part (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences [CEHHS]), is a cluster hire designed to strengthen CEHHS’ ability to address health inequities in Tennessee through interdisciplinary collaboration. This cluster will partner with Cherokee Health Systems (CHS), a federal qualified health center, to target the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases in populations who are low-resourced, to enhance health equity.

The department is hiring for two important positions in these two initiatives: a Full Professor who will co-lead the food and nutrition security cluster and an Associate Professor in the health inequities cluster. The department is seeking individuals for these positions who desire leading initiatives that can make a difference.