Senior Manager, Research and Education, Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation
Priya Fielding-Singh is the Senior Manager in Research and Education at Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation. Previously she was a Research Scientist in the Center for Health Outcomes and Population Equity, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah. She received her PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and completed her postdoctoral training as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford School of Medicine.
Priya’s work is at the intersection of social science and medicine, and she is an expert on gender, family, and health disparities in the contemporary US. Her book, How the other half eats, examines the causes and contours of nutritional inequality in America. It reveals how structural inequities not only shape what food parents can afford to buy their kids, but also what food means to parents. These meanings, often overlooked, contribute to widespread diet disparities. Her newest research project, which extends this work on parenthood and health, examines reproductive trauma as a mechanism of gender inequality and maternal health disparities. Together, these two projects fit within her broader research agenda on the social determinants of health and disease.