Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Department of Community Health Sciences and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health present:
Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes: Current Evidence and Future Directions
This talk will discuss evidence regarding food insecurity and type 2 diabetes. Topics will include the association between food insecurity and diabetes outcomes, potential mechanisms of these associations, and interventional work that seeks to address food insecurity to help individuals overcome this barrier to diabetes management.
Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He is a general internist and primary care doctor. He studies interventional approaches for addressing health-related social needs in clinical care, with a particular focus on the health effects of food insecurity.
Objectives:
- To describe the association between food insecurity type 2 diabetes health outcomes
- To explain potential mechanisms linking food insecurity and poor health in type 2 diabetes
- To review existing and emerging evidence on food insecurity interventions as part of diabetes management
This event is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
The Department of Community Health Sciences and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health present:
Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes: Current Evidence and Future Directions
This talk will discuss evidence regarding food insecurity and type 2 diabetes. Topics will include the association between food insecurity and diabetes outcomes, potential mechanisms of these associations, and interventional work that seeks to address food insecurity to help individuals overcome this barrier to diabetes management.
Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He is a general internist and primary care doctor. He studies interventional approaches for addressing health-related social needs in clinical care, with a particular focus on the health effects of food insecurity.
Objectives:
- To describe the association between food insecurity type 2 diabetes health outcomes
- To explain potential mechanisms linking food insecurity and poor health in type 2 diabetes
- To review existing and emerging evidence on food insecurity interventions as part of diabetes management
This event is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
