Public Health and Health Professions
Stark Lab
Led by Heather Stark · Environmental and Global Health
What we study
The Stark Lab studies nutrition and food security in global health. Recent student projects use follow-up surveys of 181 mother-child pairs in Burkina Faso to study cultural barriers to egg consumption and how displacement affects food access.
What working here is like
- Surveys & interviews
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
Current projects
Project Internal Displacement and Food Security: Perspectives from Burkina Faso
A follow‑up survey of 181 families from a previous nutrition study in Burkina Faso examined how conflict‑driven displacement affects food access, finding that 92.8% of caregivers had been displaced and that insecurity limits food availability. The work highlights humanitarian needs for displaced households.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 521
Socio-Cultural Barriers to Long-Term Behavior Change: Egg Consumption Among Mothers and Children in Burkina Faso
Using a follow‑up survey of 181 mother‑child pairs, researchers examined how approval from husbands, religious leaders, and household decision‑making affect continued egg feeding after displacement, finding high prior egg use but lower expected continuation.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 387
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