
RESEARCH INTERESTS Dr. Henley’s current work, focuses on nutrition and food safety education for community members. Dr. Henley’s previous work focused on interdisciplinary research to identify a unique and unsafe poultry mishandling practice among minority racial and ethnic consumers. The unsafe behavior identified to be addressed in a food safety education campaign, “Don’t Wash Your Chicken!”, receiving national attention on NPR, Nightly News, Slate blog, the TODAY show, ABC’s the CHEW, ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, and many other news outlets. Creating the educational materials was in collaboration with New Mexico State University. http://drexel.edu/dontwashyourchicken/ Shauna’s Masters research focused on investigating rural Vermont, and the food environment and cooking practices as an implication for health. This was part of a larger ethnographic study looking at the urban, suburban, and rural food environment.