Produce Rx in High Risk Pregnant Mothers at Community Health Choice.
Project Overview
This project assesses if a Houston Food Bank (HFB) comprehensive food prescription (Food Rx) program, providing consistent access to healthy food plus nutrition education, impacts gestational weight gain, other pregnancy and birth outcomes, and food and nutrition security in low-income, ethnically diverse, at-risk women residing in Houston, TX.
Project Contact: Jennifer Aiyer, MPH, RD
Project Team
Co-Principal Investigator
Shreela Sharma, PhD, RDN, LD
Director, Center for Health Equity
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology
Co-Principal Investigator
Nalini Ranjit, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Research Coordinator
Naomi Tice, MPH
Project Manager, Center for Health Equity
Research Coordinator
Jennifer Aiyer, MPH, RD
Center for Health Equity
Research Coordinator
Wesley Gibson, MPH
Center for Health Equity
Study Partners