The Ohio State University

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

Biomedical Nutrition: Discovering the Medicine in Food

Food Innovation Center collaborations in biomedical nutrition are propelled by the synergy of scholars from diverse disciplines who are focused on the need for disease-preventing and health-promoting foods. 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

Obesity: Interdisciplinary Innovation for an Epidemic

The Food Innovation Center is investing in transdisciplinary solutions to address the obesity epidemic. To make significant progress, we seek to engage agricultural, behavioral, biological, environmental, medical, policy, and socioeconomic experts. Read more

Food Security: 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