About Lauren

Lauren Bell is a second year PhD student in the Poulos Food Security Lab at UT-Austin studying the connection between food access, food systems, and chronic disease in the United States. Her current research work includes College Basic Needs, CHEFS, a culinary intervention for food insecure college students, and the Food Security Initiative at UT-Austin.

She holds an MPH in Nutrition from Tulane University and a BA in Psychology and Organizational Sciences from The George Washington University.

She has been a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach since 2020 via the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

For more of her work, find her on Instagram or Tik Tok (@Nutritionlo) and for more written pieces please visit her substack: thesecondhouse.substack.com.