Article: Increasing the effectiveness of nutrition outreach: Jamie Dollahite, associate professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, provides research-based leadership to several New York State programs that offer nutrition education and food assistance to limited-resource populations. She focuses on ways to overcome barriers that can limit the success of these programs.(Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program)(includes related article EFNEP Marks 35 Successful Years)

Dollahite works with Cornell Cooperative Extension educators across the state who support the delivery of nutrition programs for people with limited resources. She leads New York's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), works closely with programmatic aspects of the New York State Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) program--Eat Smart New York, and is involved with the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program in the state. In her research, Dollahite focuses on the ways that programs are delivered in New York and on how well they meet the needs of their target audiences. In EFNEP, the target population is families with children; in FSNE, it is families, single ...

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