Grant: Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants in Food and Health - LOI

There is currently a global epidemic of adult-onset diabetes. While few groups have been spared increases in the diabetes burden, it is clear that vulnerable populations (including different ethnic and indigenous groups, and those experiencing poverty) have been most effected. Although different nutritional factors are known to play a role in diabetes risk, studies of these factors among vulnerable populations have been limited and inconsistent with the majority of scientific literature. In this program, we aim to uncover nutritional risk factors for diabetes in vulnerable populations, and how nutrition and features of vulnerability (poverty, food insecurity) interact to increase diabetes risk.