Sera Young

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Cornell University

United States

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Dr. Sera Young is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Cornell University in the United States. Her research focuses on the interconnections between water insecurity, food insecurity, and public health outcomes, as reflected in her recent articles. She has explored critical issues such as the impact of water quality on dietary choices among youth, as well as the psychosocial effects of environmental stressors in various countries, including Mexico, Tonga, and Brazil.

Recent Grants

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Convergence: RAISE: Systems Approaches for Vulnerability Evaluation and Urban Resilience

Open Date: 2018-09-15

Close Date: 2021-08-31

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RCN: Building A Community of Practice for Household Water Insecurity Research

Open Date: 2018-07-01

Close Date: 2023-06-30

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Health consequences of water insecurity for HIV-infected mothers & their infants

Open Date: 2016-07-01

Close Date: 2019-01-31

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A novel tool for the assessment of household-level water insecurity: scale refinement, validation, and manual development

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

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Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP)

Open Date: 2015-01-01

Close Date: 2019-01-01

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Articles (29)

The intersection of tap water avoidance, food insecurity, and sugar-sweetened beverage intake among US 2–17-year-olds

Implementation Lessons of a Water Insecurity Intervention During a Drought in Mexico

Mental Distress and Resource Insecurity in the Kingdom of Tonga After the 2022 Volcanic Eruption: Associations of Water and Food Insecurity With Mental Distress

Global Drinking Water Standards Lack Clear Health-Based Limits for Sodium

Interacting Water Insecurity and Food Insecurity: Recent Advances in Theory and Application

“They Say the Water Is Perfectly Safe but…”: A Mixed‐Methods Participatory Study of Factors Influencing Trust in Tap Water Safety in a Great Lakes City

Food insecurity and water insecurity measurement in Brazil: Sustainable Development Goals monitoring through experiential scales

Household water security is a mediator of household food security in a nationally representative sample of Mexico

Self-reported anticipated harm from drinking water across 141 countries

When it comes to lead in water, new biosensing technology can reveal what the eyes cannot see and what the rules do not yet stop

Toward a more systematic understanding of water insecurity coping strategies: insights from 11 global sites

Trends and disparities in concurrent tap water avoidance and household food insecurity among US children

Water insecurity is associated with greater food insecurity and lower dietary diversity: panel data from sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Associations between food insecurity and child and parental physical, nutritional, psychosocial and economic well‐being globally during the first 1000 days: A scoping review

Water insecurity is associated with intimate partner violence among female adolescents and youth but not males in rural Tanzania: A cross-sectional study

Identifying ordinal categories for the Water Insecurity Experiences Scales

The accuracy and usability of point-of-use fluoride biosensors in rural Kenya

A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Role of Participation in a Nutrition-Sensitive Agroecology Intervention in Rural Tanzania

The co-occurrence of water insecurity and food insecurity among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya

Water insecurity, water borrowing and psychosocial stress among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya

Association of pica with cortisol and inflammation among <scp>Latina</scp> pregnant women

“The people here knew how I used to live, but now I have to start again:” Lived experiences and expectations of the displaced and non-displaced women affected by the Thwake Multipurpose Dam construction in Makueni County, Kenya

Acknowledging, measuring and acting on the importance of water for food and nutrition

Inequality of household water security follows a Development Kuznets Curve

Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites

Pathways linking social support, self-efficacy, and exclusive breastfeeding among women in northern Uganda

Validity of an abbreviated Individual Water Insecurity Experiences (IWISE-4) Scale for measuring the prevalence of water insecurity in low- and middle-income countries

The Value of Children’s Voices in Public Health Research

Tap water avoidance is associated with lower food security in the US: Evidence from NHANES 2005-2018

Collaborators (16)

Molly M. Fox

Dayoon Kwon

David Hannah

Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez

Stephanie Martin

Asher Y. Rosinger

Jacqui Webster

Shalean Collins

Melissa Beresford

Patrick Mbullo Owuor

Godfred Odei Boateng

Elizabeth Widen

Julius Lucks

Joshua Miller

William Miller

Ruth McCausland

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