Priya Fielding-Singh

Dr. Priya Fielding-Singh is a sociologist, ethnographer, and Assistant Professor of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah. Her research and writing examine issues of social, economic, and racial justice, with a focus on food and nutrition equity alongside maternal and child health. Central to her research program is the use of mixed methods to advance knowledge of both the structural and contextual factors that fuel health disparities in the United States. Her first book, How the Other Half Eats: the Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America (Little Brown, Spark 2021), draws on years of ethnographic field research she conducted on families' diets in the San Francisco Bay Area to reveal new pathways through which social and environmental factors drive disparities in diet, hunger, and diet-related disease. Her research has been published in top sociology, public health and medical journals such as Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and the Journal of Adolescent Health. Her work has also been featured in outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Harvard Business Review, and more. Dr. Fielding-Singh holds a BS in Education from Northwestern University, MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Bremen, and a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine.