Joanne Kouba, M.S., R.D.
	Title:	Director, Dietetic Internship Program
	Office:	Damen Hall, Room 417
	Phone:	773-508-8298
	E-mail:	jkouba@luc.edu

Personal Information

Grants:
$693,000 - Kellogg Foundation, Chicago Food Systems Collaboration, co-PI
$10,000 - General Mills Foundation, Cristo Rey Nutrition Project, PI
$12,500 - Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, COOL FOOD Project, co-P
$65,000 - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, extension of COOL FOOD Project, co-PI
$20,000 - Michael Reese Health Trust, extension of COOL FOOD Project, co-PI

Research Interests:
Chronic disease prevention through optimal dietary patterns, obesity prevention, particularly in children and adolescents, community food access

Past Research:
CDC 5-A-Day for Better Health grant that evaluated effectiveness of different types of nutrition education on fruit and vegetable consumption in WIC participants

Reviewer:
Journal of The American Dietetic Association for book reviews, CLOCC abstract reviewer

Current publications:

Block D, Kouba, J. (under review). A comparison of the availability and affordability of a market basket in two Chicago area communities. Journal of Public Health Nutrition.

Kouba J. Impact of Environment, ethnicity and culture on nutrition and health (book chapter) in Nutrition and Oral Medicine. 2004. Touger-Decker R, Sirios R, Mobley C (editors). Humana Press, Inc.