Kelly D. Brownell

**Research Interests** The work of our group focuses on causes and prevention of obesity and other nutrition problems. This work integrates information from many disciplines and specialties ranging from the basic physiology of body weight regulation to world politics and legislation affecting issues such as agriculture subsidies and international trade policies. The intersection of biology, behavior, environment, the law, and health is the overall emphasis. An example is work on food marketing, where faculty from nutrition, economics, public health, business, law, and psychology are collaborating to address issues of marketing food products to children. We are currently investigating a number of related issues. Projects are underway on environmental factors that contribute to obesity; food and addiction; the specific effects of the “toxic environment” that encourages overeating and physical inactivity; bias, prejudice, discrimination and obesity; message framing, persuasion, and publ