Welcome to UC Davis Foods for Health Institute

Foods for Health Welcomes its New Director!

  FFHI is excited to welcome Dr. J. Bruce German, a professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at UC Davis, to serve as Director of the Institute.   As an internationally known scholar and leader in the field of food and health, he leads a milk genome project on campus that has gained significant financial support and interest because of its interdisciplinary nature.  For additional information, please visit the link provided below:

The Institute

The Foods for Health Institute (FFHI) at the University of California at Davis is a major campus initiative that includes research, outreach and teaching programs in the arena of food and health. It seeks to build on UC Davis' strengths and integrates across departments, schools and colleges to actively create multi-disciplinary research programs, as well as, faculty to faculty and faculty to industry, research partnerships. FFHI interests span from agricultural and food sciences to the clinical assessment of food components.

The core components of the FFHI include research and outreach in the arenas of: Medicinal Nutrition, Food Engineering and Processing, Quality of Life, and Policy Analysis and Education Methods. The FFHI includes 90+ participating faculty and programs from the School of Medicine, the School of Veterinary Medicine, the School of Engineering, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the College of Biological Science, the College of Letters and Science, the USDA Western Human Nutrition Center (WHNRC) and will interface actively with other related institutes and programs on campus. It includes a Corporate Affiliate Program and a Research Consortia; both target the emerging needs of the food and health industry and are geared toward actively engaging industry in university research.

The institute's infrastructure is designed to foster and support the development of substantial, long-term research collaborations and partnerships in the area of food and health. The FFHI places high priority on strategic planning, collaboration, technology transfer, and the generation of highly trained graduates at all levels to meet academic and industrial human resources needs.

Our Core Competencies

• World-class Faculty
• Dedicated Students
• Cutting-edge Research
• Building partnerships
• Accelerating Innovations
• Influencing Policy
• Progressive Foods
• Improving Health and Wellness