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
Nour Hammad
Nour is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, specializing in Public Health Nutrition. Nour has graduated from the American University of Beirut with a B.Sc. in Nutrition, and received her M.Sc. in Global Health from Duke University. She is a Registered Dietitian. Nour is interested in exploring food insecurity among populations with lower incomes, with a focus on immigrant health. She aims to address nutrition and diet-related health disparities in structurally marginalized populations. Through her doctoral research, Nour plans to investigate associations between food insecurity and immigrant health as well as explore population-level obesity prevention strategies and their effectiveness in addressing the obesity epidemic in the US.