Key Initiatives
Food for Health: Improving Human Health Through Food
Foods such as fruits and vegetables contain a largely unexplored array of bioactive components not among the 40 essential nutrients. The Food Innovation Center focuses on the health-enhancing character of novel functional foods, ingredients, and crops to help high-risk individuals in a personalized medical model. Read more
Food Safety: Providing Safe Food
Building upon Ohio State's cutting edge capabilities in agricultural and health sciences, the Food Innovation Center (FIC) connects a network of experts with innovative ways to protect the safety of foods here and abroad. Read more
Food Strategy and Policy: Working Toward a Healthier, Hunger-free World
Food and nutrition problems are often entangled in a complex web involving public health, food distribution, safe-food trade policies, and food industry regulations. The Food Innovation Center is identifying and assembling a network of researchers across academic disciplines to tackle local, state, national, and global food concerns. Read more
Hunger.FOOD.Health
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The goal of the food security initiative is to improve access to culturally appropriate, health-promoting foods for food insecure families across central Ohio by impacting food availability, food access, food quality, and food use. Read more
Food for Billions
Food for Billions seeks innovative solutions to a healthy population on our planet by the year 2050. Read more
Food Mapping
An ambitious OSU research project hopes to gain a better understanding of how and where residents of central Columbus get their food, and what factors influence their decisions about what they eat. Read more
