Nutrition Research at UC Davis
UC Davis nutrition research spans discovery, translation, policy, and community—connecting scientific insights with real-world impact. Explore faculty research across these areas to learn how nutrition researchers are advancing knowledge, informing practice and policy, and partnering with communities to improve health and well-being.
Discovery
Discovering new knowledge about nutrition, health, and human biology—from molecules and microbes to metabolism and disease.
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Translation
Turning nutrition research into evidence, practices, and solutions that can improve health in clinical and everyday setting.
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Policy
Using nutrition evidence to inform policies and systems that shape food access, health equity, and population health.
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Community
Connecting nutrition research with communities to understand local needs, advance health equity, and create meaningful impact.
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Signature Areas
Systems biology and precision nutrition to investigate nutritional impacts on health, assess nutritional status and evaluate response to nutrition and lifestyle interventions.
Developmental nutrition with emphasis on maternal health, pregnancy outcomes, infant and child development and early determinants of adult disease.
Community and global outreach through the development and evaluation of multidimensional nutrition interventions and policies
Programmatic Expertise
- Cellular and integrative metabolism
- Clinical nutrition and biomarkers of nutritional effects on health and disease
- Life cycle nutrition, from mechanisms and models of development through chronic disease
- Maternal, infant and child nutrition
- Nutri-omics approaches and big data in nutrition
- Nutrition education in schools, communities and food assistance programs
- Nutrition of diverse populations in international and domestic settings