Superfund Research Program

Lisa M. Gaetke Ph.D., R.D., L.D.

University of Kentucky
Department of Nutrition and Food Science
119 Funkhouser Building 0054
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0054
Phone: 859-257-1031
Fax: 859-257-3707
Email: lgaetke@email.uky.edu

Projects

• University of Kentucky: Community Engagement Core (2005-2025)
• University of Kentucky: Research Translation Core (2005-2019)

Research Briefs

• 235 - Reducing the Risk of PCB-associated Type 2 Diabetes with Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

Hazardous Waste Sites

National Electric Coil/Cooper Industries

• University of Kentucky: Outreach Core

Publications

2019

• Brewer D, Bellamy H, Hoover AG, Koempel A, Gaetke LM. 2019. Nutrition and environmental pollution extension curriculum improved behaviors and environmental health literacy. Environ Health Insights 13:1-11. doi:10.1177/1178630219836992 PMID:30956525 PMCID:PMC6442077

2017

• Dunn K, Gaetke LM, Stephenson T, Brewer D. 2017. Older adults’ perception of nutrition being protective against the detrimental health effects of environmental pollution. J Ext 55(4):1-8. PMID:29176912 PMCID:PMC5697776

2016

• Willett Jones E, Feng L, Dixon JK, Hofe C, Gaetke LM. 2016. Nutrition and other protective behaviors motivated by environmental health risk awareness. Open Nutr J 10:1-12. doi:10.2174/1874288201610010001 PMID:28090221 PMCID:PMC5234471

2014

• Hofe C, Feng L, Zephyr D, Stromberg AJ, Hennig B, Gaetke LM. 2014. Fruit and vegetable intake, as reflected by serum carotenoid concentrations, predicts reduced probability of polychlorinated biphenyl-associated risk for type 2 diabetes: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2004. Nutr Res 34(4):285-293. doi:10.1016/j.nutres.2014.02.001 PMID:24774064 PMCID:PMC4008967

2010

• Gaetke LM, Willett E, Hofe C, Finnie M. 2010. Environmental Pollutants and Nutrition: Nuts and Seeds. https://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/fcs3/fcs3545/fcs3545.pdf

2008

• Gaetke LM, Gaetke K, Bowen C. 2008. Challenges to superfund community nutrition programs in kentucky. Environ Toxicol Pharmacol 25(2):277-281. doi:10.1016/j.etap.2007.10.023 PMID:18443657 PMCID:PMC2352160

2005

• Gaetke LM, Bastin SS. 2005. A nutrition outreach program provides interchange between university researchers and Superfund communities. In: Proceedings of the 46^th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nutrition, September 22-25. Kiawah Island, SC.
• Gaetke LM, Bowen C. 2005. Understanding Superfund, helping Kentucky communities through nutrition. In: Proceedings of the Cooperative Extension Service Family and Consumer Sciences Foods and Nutrition Annual Workshop, Winchester, Elizabethtown, and Princeton, KY. Winchester, KY.