Kenney Research Group
Our research focuses on identifying effective and feasible strategies to make eating healthfully easy, accessible, and affordable for everyone. Our team’s goal is to build evidence to support the development and implementation of effective population-level strategies that result in better nutrition for children and families
665 Huntington Avenue
Building 2, 3rd floor
Boston, MA 02115
Who We Are
Our team works together to identify actionable solutions for improving nutrition, reducing food insecurity, promoting cardiometabolic health, and addressing inequities at a population level.
Everyone on our team brings a unique perspective and set of skills to the table, which helps catalyze innovative ideas. Collaboration helps us mix together skills in policy evaluation, implementation science, qualitative research, econometrics, and causal inference to investigate topics as diverse as: improving participation in federal nutrition programs; the efficacy of cash assistance in improving diet quality; estimating racial/ethnic inequities in exposure to digital food marketing; weight and food stigma and how it interferes with parenting; and how food producers can be supported to implement agroecological practices.
Our team emphasizes collaboration, kindness, support, and a commitment to working towards the ideal of a world where everyone can easily eat foods that nourish them.
We use quantitative and qualitative methods to find out how policies change children’s diet quality and cardiometabolic disease risk
We use implementation science to understand how organizations and people can be supported to successfully adopt nutrition policies
We use a range of methods to explore how intersecting forms of discrimination, including race-based, class-based, and weight-based, harm nutritional health
We use social epidemiology and test interventions to help identify effective strategies for child nutrition