Food Insecurity and Disease

Areej Hassan, MD, MPH, is an attending in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Brown University before her fellowship at BCH. In addition to primary care, Dr.Hassan focuses her clinical interests on reproductive endocrinology and global health. She also maintains an active role in medical education and has particular interest in building and developing innovative teaching tools through open educational resources. She currently teaches, consults, and is involved in pediatric and adolescent curricula development at multiple sites abroad in Central America and Southeast Asia.

Food Insecurity in Adults with Mood Disorders: Prevalence Estimates and Associations with Nutritional and Psychological Health. Household Food Insecurity and Mental Distress Among Pregnant Women in Southwestern Ethiopia: A Cross Sectional Study Design. Is Food Insecurity Associated with HIV Risk? Cross-Sectional Evidence from Sexually Active Women in Brazil. Food Insecurity Is a Barrier to Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Services in Zimbabwe: A Cross-Sectional Study. A Pre-Post Pilot Study of Peer Nutritional Counseling and Food Insecurity and Nutritional Outcomes Among Antiretroviral Therapy Patients in Honduras. Relationship between Food Insecurity and Mortality among HIV-Positive Injection Drug Users Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in British Columbia, Canada. Shamba Maisha: Pilot Agricultural Intervention for Food Security and HIV Health Outcomes in Kenya: Design, Methods, Baseline Results and Process Evaluation of a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Challenges of Diabetes Self-Management in Adults Affected by Food Insecurity in a Large Urban Centre of Ontario, Canada. Children’s Very Low Food Security Is Associated with Increased Dietary Intakes in Energy, Fat, and Added Sugar Among Mexican-Origin Children (6-11 Y) in Texas Border Colonias. Obesity Prevention and National Food Security: A Food Systems Approach. Food Sovereignty: Power, Gender, and the Right to Food. Big Food, Food Systems, and Global Health.