The Kinesiology & Health master's degree focus in community and public health helps students develop systems-thinking approaches to creating conditions for healthy communities and ending health disparities. Students can maintain a general community and public health focus or specialize in public health nutrition arenas of food security, food systems, and food justice. Courses offered within this focus in include Food, Health & Justice, Creating Conditions for Community Health, Food Systems & Health: From person to planet, and Global Health. The lead faculty in this focus area is Dr. Christine M. Porter, who has been principal investigator on multi-million dollar, federally funded projects including ''Food Dignity: Action research on engaging food insecure communities and universities in building sustainable community food systems'' and ''Growing Resilience: an RCT on the health impact of gardens with Wind River Indian Reservation.''