The CHL Center Team is excited to announce the next stage of CHL! We have received a five-year United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant to develop a CHL Food Systems model.
Our goal is to use systems dynamics research methods in an integrated approach to develop a CHL Food Systems Model and simulations to identify and test drivers of resiliency in food supply chains for decreasing food wastage and increasing food and nutrition security, healthful dietary patterns, and healthy body size among children, in order to prevent chronic disease in households and communities across the US Affiliated Pacific insular area (Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Am. Samoa) which will be used to guide education and extension programs.
Objectives are to 1. Develop and test a System Dynamics stakeholder-driven transdisciplinary multilevel food and nutrition security resiliency model. 2. Provide graduate training to future leaders from the US Affiliated Pacific Region in food and nutrition security model development. 3. Incorporate Model key results and tools into extension and other community programs with online access to simulation tools on the CHL website to guide multilevel systems change.
We would like to recognize our partners and staff who make this work local and dynamic, while building a collective understanding and impact:
- Rachel Novotny, University of Hawai’i
- Lynne Wilkens, University of Hawai’i
- Carol Boushey, University of Hawai’i
- Marie Revilla, University of Hawai’i
- Monica Esquivel, University of Hawai’i
- Yurii Shvetsov, University of Hawai’i
- Claire Ing, University of Hawai’i
- Leslie Shallcross, University of Alaska at Fairbanks
- Travis Flemming, American Samoa Community College
- Patricia Coleman, Northern Marianas College
- Tanisha Aflague, University of Guam
- Peter Hovmand, Case Western University
- Karen Franck, University of Tennessee
- Matt Loke, Hawaii Department of Agriculture
- Jean Butel, CHL Program Manager
- Rica Dela Cruz, Graduate Assistant
- Erik Hill, CHL IT Manager
- Sabine Strasburger, CHL Data Associate
- Ashley Yamanaka, CHL Data Analyst
- Feixue Yan, CHL Administrator