Public Health and Health Professions
BRIGHT Lab
Led by Sarah McKune · Environmental and Global Health
What we study
The BRIGHT Lab studies global health nutrition and food security using mixed methods, including quantitative and qualitative research. Their work focuses on household hygiene, livestock ownership, climate change, and gender dynamics to improve child and maternal health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Surveys & interviews
- Human participants
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
The DAWN Study
Investigates adolescent practices, mental and metabolic health, hormonal biomarkers, and life-course beliefs affecting child growth and nutrition.
GC Data: Women's Health Index
Uses data-driven approaches to improve women's health outcomes in Ethiopia.
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Exploring the Feasibility and Sustainability of Increasing Egg Consumption in Rwanda
Researchers are testing whether more egg eating by pregnant women in Rwanda could help stop child stunting. They reviewed documents, met with stakeholders, and interviewed community members to see if there is enough demand and if people would eat eggs for nutrition instead of selling them.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 299
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Internal Displacement and Food Security: Perspectives from Burkina Faso
2026
- Understanding Black Women’s Lived Experiences of Medical Mistrust and Trust in the Reproductive Care Setting: a nested sequential explanatory mixed methods study
2026 · BMC Public Health
Explores why Black women in Florida distrust medical providers and how to build trust.
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- A pathway to food and nutritional security in the Sahel in the context of climate change: A One Health framework
2026 · CABI One Health
Proposes a framework to improve food security in the Sahel using a systems approach.
- Climate change, food security, and dietary diversity in the West African Sahel: A mixed methods study in Senegal
2026
- Brain Foods: A Narrative Review of Food Items and Their Impact on Cognition over the Life Course
2026 · Nutrients
Reviews how plant and animal foods affect brain health over a lifetime.
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
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