News & Events

We are excited to welcome Ryelie Barnes to our team! She is joining us as a Graduate Research Assistant with our CTSC projects and you can learn more about her…

We are excited to welcome Laylah Allen on to our team! She is joining us as a Program Assistant, and you can learn more about her in the interview below.

We are excited to welcome Martinique Mims on to our team! She is joining us as a Program Assistant, and you can learn more about her in the interview below.…

We are excited to welcome Anvitha Ravipati to our team! Anvitha is joining us as a Graduate Research Assistant, and you can read more about her in the interview…

We are excited to welcome Ivory J. Simms into our team!  Ivory is joining us as the Director of Operations and Partnerships.  You…

We are excited to welcome Brianna Williams on to our team! She is joining us as a Research Associate, and you can learn more about her in the interview below.…

We are excited to welcome Tommy Oddo into our team! Tommy is joining us as a Graduate Research Assistant, and you can read more about him in the interview below…

Another talented student joins our team! We are excited to have Elizabeth Adu give her skills and experiences to support the Community Nutrition Team.

We are excited to welcome Megan Paskey into our team! She is joining us as a Research Associate, and you can learn more about her in the interview below.

Another talented Graduate Research Assistant has joined the Swetland Center! Eleanor Gillerlane Hinkes has recently become a part of our team to provide…

The Swetland Center welcomes another bright Graduate Research Assistant! Emmanuelle (Emma) Iskander joined us recently to help support the Nourishing Power…

2023 Has been a whirlwind for the Swetland Center as we welcomed two new team members. We are thrilled to have Shannon Walker, PhD, MEd, BA join us as a post-…

The Swetland Center is excited to bring in the new year with a new addition to our team! Linea Webb will be joining the center as a Community Engaged Researcher…

On December 1, Swetland Center intern D'Ella Heschmeyer was awarded the top funding amount for a grant proposal she co-authored on behalf of the Surfrider…

The Swetland Center is excited to welcome Maggie Switzer to our team! She is joining as our newest research associate and you can learn more about her by reading…

The Emergency Food Assistance and Food Security (EFAFS) study team, in coordination with the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, was delighted to welcome attendees to "…

The Swetland Center is happy to announce a new research associate will be joining the Center's team. Katie Poppe will be supporting our Statewide and National…

We are proud to announce that a new postdoctoral scholar has joined the Swetland Center! The Nourishing Power team grows stronger with the addition of Emily…

We are excited to announce that a new pre-doctoral scholar, Anthony Orsino, will be joining us here at the Swetland Center! Read more about Anthony and what he…

The Swetland Center is always excited to share the accomplishments of its team members. The Center is proud to announce that…

The Daniel Lewis Ravin, MD Award honors current MD students and PhD candidates enrolled in the School of Medicine at Case…

The Swetland Center is always proud to welcome students into the Center. Eleanor Gillerlane Hinkes is a graduate student working on her practicum and capstone at…

The Swetland Center is excited to welcome three new Faculty Affiliates to the team. Read more about Maeve MacMurdo, Francisca García-Cobián Richter, and Miranda…

The Swetland Center continues to grow as we welcome two students to the Emergency Food Assistance and Food Security Study. Learn more about Nathan Ruhde and Uva…

The Swetland Center would like to take a moment to thank two of our team members who are moving on from their time with us to pursue other opportunities.
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Each new season brings changes to our environment and the Swetland Center is embracing the changes in the air!

Our center would like to thank those that…

Are you interested in the multifaceted relationship between environment and health? Do you want to assist in finding solutions to redress the environment's…

The Swetland Center is growing with student support as we welcome another student Zeyna Samba to the Nourishing…

We are excited to congratulate our 2021 Food Systems Change Fellow, Kellee Etheridge, on her new role as Lead Educator at Food Strong. Food Strong aims to use…

The Swetland Center is excited to welcome our newest dietetic intern at CWRU, Olivia Roder, who will be conducting her rotation with the Swetland Center this…

The Swetland Center continues to grow and we are proud to welcome our newest volunteer Thendral Veerasekar who will be assisting Dr. Owusua Yamoah with the…

We are excited to congratulate our 2021 Food Systems Change Fellow, Antunesia Harris, on her new role as Community Engagement Coordinator at MidTown Cleveland.…

A policy put in place generations ago still has lasting impacts on the social and economic well-being of Blacks to this day.

According to a University of…

The News 5 Cleveland article "Food security is not just a COVID problem" - summarized below - discusses the problem of food insecurity in Cleveland and…

CLEVELAND—Case Western Reserve University and Produce Perks Midwest, a Cincinnati-based non-profit, have partnered to increase the availability of FM Tracks, an…

This paper, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, marks the culmination of the 3.5-year research project:…

The Swetland Center has been proud to host a regular rotation of dietetic interns over the last several years. In 2022, the center is excited to be joined by…

Stephanie had the opportunity to attend, with assistance from the Daniel Lewis Ravin scholarship was the World Health Organization’s Global Health and Climate…

The Swetland Center wishes to express our sincere gratitude to our Swetland Center…

The Swetland Center is excited to welcome our new volunteer Thiago Gonzalez to the center! Please read more about Thiago and his experience below. We are eager…

On behalf of the Swetland Center for Environmental Health, we invite you to join the foodNEST team of community and academic partners to learn about our…

On Friday, October 15th and Tuesday, October 19th, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition and the foodNEST 2.0 Collaborative co-hosted conversations…

The Swetland Center would like to congratulate fourth-year CWRU School of Medicine student, Stephanie Wottrich, for receiving the Daniel Lewis Ravin, MD Award.…

The Swetland Center center is pleased to share that Regan Gee has joined our center as a graduate assistant working with Dr. Yamoah on the Emergency Food…

We are excited to welcome Linh, a dietetic intern, to Swetland Center. Learn more about Linh below!

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The Swetland Center would like to congratulate PostDoctoral Scholar Owusua Yamoah on her recent notice of funding to support the 'Farmers to Families (F-cube)'…

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an increased awareness of food insecurity as well as an increase in the implementation of policies and interventions at the…

The American Public Health Association (APHA) will be hosting their Annual Meeting and Expo virtually and in person October 24th - 27th. This event is the…

The Swetland Center is excited to welcome our newest intern Maurice Lucious who is finishing his master's of public health degree at Walden University. He…

This summer the Swetland Center hosted its third cohort of interns who were immersed in environmental health and community engaged …

Thank you to those of you who joined us for the Showcase of Opportunities featuring the 2021 Cohort of Food Systems Change Fellows last Wednesday. We appreciate…

The Swetland Center is excited to announce that one of our post-doctoral scholars, Owusua Yamoah, has been awarded a grant from the Center for Reducing Health…

The Swetland Center is excited to announce our newest advisory council member, G. Keymah Durden III. Durden, a graduate of Cuyahoga Community College’s Post…

The Swetland Center is excited to announce our newest faculty affiliate, Dr. Brandy Phipps. Dr. Phipps received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences with a focus on…

Join us virtually as the 2021 Food Systems Change Fellows share their visions for change at the Showcase of Opportunities on July 28, 2021. 

The…

Please extend a warm welcome to our newest team member, Brooke Kahl! Brooke has stepped into the role of foodNEST 2.0 Program Manager and is excited to…

Over the past two months, we have been challenging ourselves to grow, learn and change the way we understand, discuss and act to dismantle racist structures that…

The Swetland Center is excited to announce another addition to our growing team! Lindsay Osborn, BS, MPH, MS is joining the center as the Building Capacity…

We are excited to introduce our newest staff member Sheena Fryerson to the Swetland Community! Her role as Community-engaged Researcher will support research…

The Swetland Center is excited to welcome a new Graduate Assistant to our foodNEST 2.0 Food Security and COVID-19 Study. Audrey Lim joins the team with a…

Congratulations to authors Dr. Sanchez-Flack, Dr. Joshi, Dr. Lee, and Dr. Freedman for their publication, “Indicators of Readiness and Capacity for…

Child care programs can be safe within the context of low community transmission of COVID-19, according to new research from Case Western Reserve University,…

The Swetland Center for Environmental Health proudly welcomes Brinda Athreya to the team as our newest Qualitative Research Associate.

Brinda graduated…

The Swetland Center is excited to highlight a recent feature in the Case Western Reserve University daily newsletter which included an interview with our own…

The Modeling the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood study (foodNEST 2.0) provides decision-making tools to guide future community driven food systems…

The Swetland Center recently released a new data brief documenting the main findings from food retail audits we conducted over the past five years, between 2015…

The American Public Health Association (APHA) will be hosting their Annual Meeting and Expo virtually October 24th - 28th. This event is the largest gathering of…

Swetland Faculty Affiliate, Kristie Ross, MD, is a co-author on a new article in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical…

Thanks to funding from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, the Swetland Center for Environmental health faculty and affiliates were able to…

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition and the Modeling the Future of Food in Your…

This summer the Swetland Center virtually hosted its second cohort of interns and trainees who were immersed in engaging and thought-provoking experiences…

The Swetland Center is proud to share that Abigail Roche has become our second Pre Doctoral Scholar to be accepted into the Foundation for Food and…

Eun Kyung Lee, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Swetland Center will be participating in the Translational Fellows Program (TFP) managed by the Office of…

Samuel Boas is the 2020-2021 Daniel Lewis Ravin Scholar at the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health.  The Daniel Lewis Ravin, MD Award…

Swetland Affiliate, Dr. Colleen Walsh recently published an Op-Ed in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice titled, 'Learning to See Racism:…

There are numerous unforeseen issues that have arisen due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and while access to fresh, healthy food for most residents in Cleveland…

These are challenging and changing times. COVID-19 has forced us to grapple with health anxieties, barriers to effective work, and rapidly shifting societal…

The Swetland Center is proud to promote the work of our very own Jennifer King, PhD. This article was originally published online on First Year Cleveland's…

Congratulations are in order for members of the Building Capacity for Obesity Prevention (BCOP) Team! 

The publication, "Identifying Indicators of…

The Swetland Center is proud to share that our affiliate faculty member, Jill Clark has been awarded the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award!

Jill will be…

Welcoming the newest member of the Swetland team! Owusua Yamoah is a recent graduate of the University of Toledo and holds a PhD in Spatially Integrated Social…

This spring has brought the Swetland Center numerous reasons to celebrate; publications, new team members, and four new graduates! It is a…

Elizabeth Benninger’s work on scope therapy has recently been published in a special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology…

On Monday, April 13th 2020, Roberto Martinez, MD, MPH will be defending his doctorate dissertation proposal in a web presentation titled Policy Analysis:…

A team from the Swetland Center asked the question – If you build a food hub in a neighborhood, will it improve community health outcomes? Results of this study…

Karen Mulloy, DO, Associate Professor at the CWRU School of Medicine has been awarded the 2020 Scholarship in Teaching Award! Dr. Mulloy, along with co-authors,…

COVID19 Updates for the Swetland Center

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The 2019 Swetland Center Annual Report is now available. Click the cover to view!

We are excited to welcome Timothy Ciesielski, our new Senior Research Associate, to the Swetland Center! Tim has a doctorate in…

Please join us on February 26th from 12-1:30 PM for Time Management: Part 2 with Kimberly Justice from the CWRU, Office of Professional Development! This seminar…

The Swetland Center is sending a warm welcome to our new post-doctoral scholar, Eun Kyung, who will be working with Modeling the Future of Food in Your…

The application cycle for 2020 Swetland Center Summer Internships are now open! In this 10-week program, interns will take part in professional development…

We did it! The Center of Excellence for Environmental Health Equity P50 grant application was submitted to the NIH on November 22nd, 2019. This was a…

We are very excited to announce Dr. Elizabeth Benninger's acceptance into a new post-doctoral fellowship at CWRU! This NIH-funded T32 fellowship in primary care…

Dr. Darcy Freedman and Roberto Martinez presented at the 12th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation In Health, in Arlington,…

Rebecca Bracken, BA is a new Graduate Assistant with the HEALing Communities Study at the Swetland Center for Environmental Health. She comes from the University…

We are hiring! The Swetland Center for Environmental Health is seeking a Research Assistant 4 to coordinate major activities of the research staff to support the…

Introducing the Swetland Center Professional Development Series for the Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 season! Join our lunch & learn opportunities each month to…

Swetland Center Director Dr. Darcy Freedman and foodNEST 2.0 collaborators (from front to back) Dr. Jill Clark, Dr. David Ngendahimana, and Dr. Dominique Rose…

Swetland's Weidi Qin has been featured in The Daily! Weidi recently published a study: Driving Cessation and Social Isolation in Older Adults. The research…

As a member of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities Think Tank (MetroHealth), Jennifer was asked to participate in a panel on October 7th for a Health…

Swetland's Elizabeth Benninger, Ph.D., has published a book chapter! Elizabeth wrote Researching Children’s Subjective Well-Being in South Africa: Considerations…

Dr. Freedman presented on food security and chronic disease in Las Vegas, Nevada at the 7th annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology. Her…

The data brief for the 2019 Convening Ideas & Actions: Creating Food Opportunities for the Future is now available! In May 2019, over 150…

From August 26th-30th, Elizabeth Benninger attended and presented at The International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) Conference in Tartu, Estonia! The ISCI…

In early August, CWRU first year medical students completed a Climate Change Team Based Learning exercise. Associate Professor Karen B. Mulloy, DO,…

The Swetland Center proudly recognizes Pre-Doctoral Candidate Gwendolyn Donley for her recent acceptance into the 2019  Foundation for Food and Agriculture…

Join us as the work of Dr. Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH and the Swetland Center is featured as part of the Science Café Series at the…

The Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio is seeking a…

The Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health is seeking qualified candidates for the Senior Program Director of the NIH Ohio HEALing Communities Study (…

We are excited to present the inaugural cohort of Swetland Center Interns; from left to right, Michael Pierce, Haley Tolerton, Deidrhe Clayton, Tracy Segall, and…

The Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at CWRU School of Medicine has a full-time…

Congratulations to Dr. Dominique Rose, Ph.D., CHES who graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Education from Southern Illinois University. As a dual-…

The Swetland Team along with our Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods partners have been sprinting over the past eight weeks participating in the…

The Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health was recently featured in CWRU's THINK  magazine in an article entitled: …

Congratulations to Dr. David Ngendamiana, Ph.D. who recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. David is currently a post-doctoral scholar…

The Swetland Center celebrates the Ms. Milen Embaye in her successful completion of the Masters of Public Health program at Case Western Reserve University. Her…

A big congratulations to Swetland Center staff member Rachael Sommer on her recent graduation from the Women Staff Leadership Development Institute…

Congratulations to Swetland Center faculty member, Dr. Mulloy on her induction into the Academy of Scholar Educators. 

Dr. Mulloy is being…

The goal of…

The Swetland Center welcomes our newest staff member, Milen Embaye, MPH, Research Assistant with our Quantitative Research Core. She will be working on two of…

The Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health is now accepting applications for the Swetland Community Fellowship. The 2019 Swetland Community…

Gwendolyn Donley, Swetland Pre-Doctoral Scholar, will travel to Portland, Oregon in March 2019 to present the work of the foodNEST 2.0 team at the Society for…

Elizabeth Beninger, Swetland Post-Doctoral Scholar, will travel to Chicago in June 2019 to present the work of the foodNEST 2.0 team at the …

The Daniel Lewis Ravin, MD Award honors MD…