Organization
M4A Foundation - CrowdDoing

MPH/DPH evaluation specialist Volunteer, Medicinal Foods & Herbs for Stress,sleep & anxiety

Duration
Recruiting through Oct 30th
Location
El Dorado Hills, CA

Opportunity Details

Ongoing

Remote

Recruiting through Oct 30th

El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

About this Opportunity

  • MPH/DPH evaluation specialist Volunteer, Medicinal Foods & Herbs for Stress,sleep & anxiety
  • Skilled volunteers needed to be recruited to conduct public health program activities to support the program objectives
    • Collect and evaluate primary data
    • Abstraction of evidence on mechanism of action (pathways)
    • Grade the level of evidence available
    • Personnel from the health science field who can conduct literature review (interpret/evaluate scientific findings, search public health databases, grade body the literature)
    • Health communication specialist/health education specialist
    • MPH/DPH evaluation specialist, intervention researcher, research scientist etc. with experience in conducting program evaluation
    • Biochemist and biophysicists
    • Skilled recipe creator for the subscription box items
    • Graphic designer to design the recipe card for consumers
  • Challenges that you can help us address:
    • There is limited literature on identifying the population risk factors at the subthreshold level
    • Literature is available for subthreshold GAD and PTSD
    • Unable to find literature on subthreshold acute, episodic, and chronic stress disorders
  • Determinants of diet (as previously covered)
  • Response efficacy
  • Underwhelming evidence to strongly support such health claims and arrive at strong scientific conclusions on safety and efficacy for majority of herbal products available on the market.
  • Lack of literature on the prevention and treatment of stress and anxiety particularly at the subthreshold level.
  • Identify food consumption pathways to alleviating specific types of stress, sleep, and

    anxiety through medicinal foods.

    MPH/DPH evaluation specialist Volunteer, Medicinal Foods & Herbs for Stress,sleep & anxiety

    Identify chemical substances found in medicinal foods that can address different types of

    stress, sleep, and anxiety.

    Identify foods that contain the beneficial chemical substances.

    Identify what types of stress/anxiety can be managed through consumption of the

    identified chemical substances in the food.

    Keep track of resources for transparency purposes and to reduce redundancies in effort.

Identify food synergy

Identify foods will work together to increase benefits

Identify foods have a harmful synergy

Identify interaction with herbs/supplements

Identify interaction with foods

Make sure medicinal foods are NOT going to have a harmful interaction with the user’s

medication, current diet, and other herbs/supplements

Nutrition science

How long to prescribe the foods

How often to take the foods

Dosage for optimal benefits

Health conditions to take into consideration

How to incorporate medicinal foods into one’s diet

Conduct subscription box recommendations for Stress, Sleep, and Anxiety

(Collaboration)

Taken into consideration harmful effects from food synergy and interaction

Choose what to include in each box to address each different type of anxiety

i.e. PTSD, OCD, GAD, social anxiety, phobias etc..

i.e. address social anxiety and acute stress etc.. identify different combos and how to address

those specific types of stress, anxiety and sleep issues

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Issue area

  • Health & Wellness