Our Goals

The Foods for Health Initiative aims to develop a comprehensive program at UC Davis that considers all aspects of food from the farm to the table to the ultimate health of the individual.

Foundations of the Foods for Health Initiative

To achieve a new direction for research and innovation in foods, to empower individuals to greater personal freedom for choosing their foods and achieving superior personal health, the UC Davis Foods for Health Initiative will establish three thematic axes as underlying platforms. These are:

Individualize metabolic, nutritional and behavioural knowledge, for quantitative assessment, interpretation and intervention.
Integrate all aspects of food's values including health, safety, quality, delight, convenience, economy, efficiency and sustainability. By improving these values infuse greater return to the entire agricultural food chain.
Inform the world to share in this new knowledge.

FFHI Faculty member, Bill Ristenpart

was recently published in Nature for his exciting new research! The new study shows that there is a point at which an increased electrical field actually keeps droplets from coalescing.

These surprising findings, published in the Sept. 17 issue of the journal Nature, could lead to improved applications in diverse fields including microchip manufacturing, biofuel and crude oil purification, and food oil processing. The research also increases our understanding of atmospheric conduction. Link to article...

Our Goals

FFHI Faculty member, Bill Ristenpart

Nutritional Genomics Conference:

The Impact of Dietary Regulation of Gene Function on Human Disease

Food and Health Entrepreneurship Academy