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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

Location

665 Huntington Avenue 
Building 2, 3rd floor 
Boston, MA 02115 

Mary Kathryn Poole

Mary Kathryn Poole is a second-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition. Her research aims to translate public health nutrition research into effective public policy; strengthen nutrition environments in settings that serve young children; and evaluate initiatives that advance nutrition and food security. As a former public health practitioner of community-based nutrition programs, she also aims to bridge the gap between research and practice by uniting on effective strategies that support population health. Mary Kathryn received a PhD in Population Health Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, MPH at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and BS in Psychology at Davidson College.

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