Hosted by the NYU Office of Global Inclusion (OGI)
2022 Race and Racism in the Sciences Series: Examining diet-related health disparities through a culturally sensitive approach that empowers communities and underrepresented students
The food environment plays a role in individual health outcomes. Dr. Marie Bragg’s research explores how food and beverage companies target youth of color with racially targeted advertising and how youth respond to these targeted advertisements. She will discuss how to approach recruitment among communities of color with cultural sensitivity. Additionally, Dr. Bragg will share how she facilitates team discussions around race and racism and its intersections with her research.
Following the talk, join us for an optional debriefing to discuss topics relevant to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to brainstorm applications of the topics within and across the sciences.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Marie Bragg earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Yale University and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at the NYU School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Nutrition at the NYU School of Global Public Health. She studies how exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertisements affects food choices among Black and Latinx youth.
Dr. Bragg chairs the NYU School of Medicine task force to redesign the medical students’ curriculum to include social determinants of health, and she serves on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-racism working groups in both of her departments. She has mentored more than 100 students in her research lab her seven years at NYU. Dr. Bragg's philosophy on mentoring and research stems from her own cultural experiences as a Caribbean American, and the appreciation that cultural and racial/ethnic identity is unique for each person, even within families. Her mother's family moved from Trinidad to Miami before she was born, and Dr. Bragg was the second person in her family to attend college--her mother earned a nursing degree after moving to the U.S.
Suggested Readings:
Rummo PE, Arshonsky JH, Sharkey AL, Cassidy OL, Bragg MA. Social media accounts of food and beverage brands have disproportionately more Black and Hispanic followers than White followers. Health Equity. 2021 Jun 1;5(1):414-23.
Bragg MA, Pageot YK, Hernández-Villarreal O, Kaplan SA, Kwon SC. Content analysis of targeted food and beverage advertisements in a Chinese-American neighbourhood. Public Health Nutrition. 2017 Aug;20(12):2208-14.