S1 E15: A Nutritious Guide to Public Health: Empowering Healthier Eating Habits

This episode explores strategies to empower healthier eating habits in low-income communities, food insecurity, and food deserts. Empowerment of healthier food options and choices is explored from adolescence into adulthood as a preventive measure to decrease disease incidence in addition to public health strategies to combat these issues. This episode features special guests: Dr. Rahmatu Kassimu, PhD, MPH, CHES and Adebusola Ogunnaike, MPH. Adebusola Ogunnaike, MPH who completed her Master of Public Health degree at Emory University and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Public Health at the University of South Carolina. Busola is passionate about reducing Non-Communicable Diseases, particularly in Low Middle Income Countries. Dr. Rahmatu Kassimu is an educator, a researcher, a public health consultant, and a change agent. Dr. Kassimu possess a heart for public health and kids, a desire for health equity, and a passion for advocacy. She created Dr. K.'s Health Minute to serve as a source of easily accessible and digestible health and wellness information. Her work focuses on reduction of health disparities and increasing the quality of life in POC, particularly African American/Black people.