Krista Casazza, Ph.D., Adolescent Medicine, has been awarded a Center for Clinical and Transitional Science Research Voucher for her application entitled “Culinary medicine intervention to empower pre-adolescent girls to help their families to improve nutrition literacy, self-image and overall well-being.” This voucher will be used in a study involving Dr. Casazza’s partnership with Girls Inc. She has also received a CTL-QEP Teaching Innovation Award for her application entitled “Integrating Research and Service Learning into a Team Environmental Approach to Improve Community Health Literacy.” The goal of this approved proposal will disseminated to service learning classes related to health that have the capacity to implement a research project into their curriculum, particularly focused on improving aspects of health literacy in vulnerable/underserved populations.

Congratulations Dr. Casazza!