Principal Investigator
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Many nutrition and dietetic professionals are familiar with the term ‘social norms’, because it is a critical component of several theories of health behavior. We’re not as comfortable using it to understand our professional culture or to reflect on our practice. Yet, those norms – unspoken, invisible standards – impact our education, research, and practice.
Dietetics is built upon a normativity of whiteness, socioeconomic comfort, and cis-gender heterosexual, able-bodied womanhood. There is a lack professional diversity and inclusion in dietetics, in part because of a history of racism, classism, and bias that remains (somewhat) unchanged. The Burt lab works to identify, explicate, and eliminate inequitable barriers to and within the dietetics profession in the interest of more inclusive profession.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Optimism, Resilience, and Other Health-Protective Factors Among Students at a New York City Hispanic-Serving Institution During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
The importance of collecting more and better data to achieve a diverse, inclusive profession.
The Digest, 2021
Systemic and institutionalized racism, not achievement gap factors, limit the success of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in dietetics education and credentialing.
Journal of Critical Dietetics, Special Issue on Racism Against Blacks in Dietetic, 2021