Annie Hardison-Moody

Bio

Annie Hardison-Moody works in the emerging field of religion and health, and has broad expertise in community-based initiatives that promote access to food and places to be active. She was co-PI for FIRST: Food Insecurity Responses, Solutions, and Transformation during COVID-19, an NSF-funded RAPID grant that aimed to understand how families’ food practices shifted as a result of COVID-19 and identify the processes that buffered some families from food insecurity but not others. She was co-PI of Health Matters, a CDC-funded initiative that promoted healthy eating and places to be active in four North Carolina counties and also co-PI for Voices into Action: The Families, Food, and Health Project, a USDA- and Russell Sage Foundation-funded longitudinal study of the family food environment (2012 – 2020). Dr. Hardison-Moody is also Director of Faithful Families Thriving Communities, a faith-based health promotion intervention implemented across the US. Along with Dr. Sarah Bowen, she is currently at work on a book about food insecurity that is under contract with the University of California press.