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The Foods For Health Institute was established to link diverse scientific disciplines across the colleges and schools of the University of California at Davis, and develop regional and international multi-stakeholder partnerships. The FFHI acts as an engine for research, innovation, and economic development supported by competitive research programs, industry collaborations, and philanthropic funding. Together, the FFHI and its partners will lead the improvement of individual health through diet.

About the Foods for Health Institute

Vision

The vision of the FFHI is to bring personalized health to practice by creating the tools to personalize health assessment and the mechanistic understanding of how diet controls health.

Mission

To build the scientific understanding of how diet affects health, to create the technologies that can measure it and the education to guide individuals to know their own health and to improve it.

Objectives

The objectives of the FFHI are to guide multidisciplinary research programs drawing on the complementary strengths of the University of California, Davis and its partners to: (1) develop assessment technologies that accurately measure health; (2) discover the molecular targets of health that are modifiable by food and lifestyle; and (3) translate the discoveries at the molecular level to personalized food and lifestyle solutions.