Abiodun Atoloye

Biography

Dr. Abiodun Atoloye is an Assistant Professor of Nutrition with a focus on inequities in food access and community food systems. She seeks to understand barriers that low-resource families, refugees, and immigrants face in accessing healthy, affordable, safe, nutritious, and culturally acceptable food. She takes an explicitly contextual and spatial approach to identify residents’ needs and measure exposures and outcomes, including mapping, citizen science, and policy analyses. Her applied research identifies cross-sector actions, including place-based and food systems interventions, to improve access to healthy food and nutrition- and health-related outcomes. She has a number of ongoing research projects that cut across nutrition, health, environment, and food systems from the perspective of people, policy, and global context. She was a co-PI on a USAID-funded international study on food safety and childhood malnutrition, a Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science- and Russell Sage Foundation-funded study among Black immigrants with PhDs, and a co-I on Nutrition & Obesity Policy Research & Evaluation Network (NOPREN) Coordinating center funds for project on the promotion of racial equity among Food Policy Councils. She currently co-leads another USAID-funded international study on youth participation in school gardening.

Dr. Atoloye also contributed to the development of the Food System Indicators database and its user guide as a member of the Food Policy Council work group of NOPREN.

Dr. Atoloye's Inclusive Food Access lab is not currently recruiting graduate students. However, undergraduate students with an interest in research are welcome.