Outstanding Student Research: Li et al on Investigating the Placement of Green Carts to Improve Access to Healthful Foods in Food Deserts

Each year since 2011 Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) has issued a special call for student papers for our Student Research Paper Contest. This year PCD received 67 submissions from students throughout the world. We are very excited to recognize Kathleen Li and colleagues as the winners of the 2014 contest for their paper entitled “Evaluation of the Placement of Mobile Fruit and Vegetable Vendors to Alleviate Food Deserts in New York City” (1). Ms Li is currently a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and she conducted the study described in her paper with Dr Carol Horowitz and colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Department of Health Evidence and Policy.