RESEARCH EXPERTISE
CURRENT RESEARCH: FOOD Research on food at the School ranges from looking at how food production and distribution impacts health to how eating disorder diagnoses differ across populations.
ANALYZING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS Xiaobo Xue Romeiko, assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences, focuses on sustainable solutions capable of conserving natural resources and minimizing negative environmental health damages. Her team develops innovative models to evaluate resource consumption and climate resiliency of water and waste infrastructure and to analyze environmental health impacts of food and energy supply chains.
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Recently, Romeiko studied preserved plum production to see which production methods led to higher fossil fuel depletion, ozone depletion, eco-toxicity, respiratory impacts and more. Studies like this one, published in Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, can help to showcase methods to reduce environmental and health impacts of our food systems.
