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Rebecca Boulos presents on community nutrition at URI

Rebecca Boulos, M.P.H., Ph.D., assistant clinical professor in the School of Community and Population Health, presented a lecture titled, "Approaches to Improving Community Nutrition" at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, on Thursday, April 16, 2015. She was invited to speak by URI’s Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences program.

Her presentation explored how to use public health theoretical frameworks and complex systems science to design and evaluate community-level programs and interventions aimed at improving population nutrition. 

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