Faculty Bio

Christopher L. Fink

Professor in the Department of Health & Human Kinetics; Public Health Program Co-Director

Education

• B.S., Lake Superior State University
• M.S., Indiana University-Bloomington
• Ph.D., The Ohio State University

About

Christopher Fink is the co-director of the OWU Public Health program, a professor in the Department of Health & Human Kinetics, and an affiliated faculty member in the Latine and Latin American Studies program. His teaching focuses broadly on public health, Latin American health, food studies, community health education, and qualitative inquiry. He has helped lead travel learning courses to Cuba and Italy, and leads a summer study abroad program at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy.

He also directs Cooking Matters, which is a nutrition-education program in Delaware County, focused on reducing food insecurity. The program is a collaboration with the United Way of Delaware County, the Delaware County Hunger Alliance, and the Delaware Public Health District, has reached over 2,000 Delaware County residents since 2014, and has provided leadership experiences for more than 100 OWU students in that same time.

His research focuses on community health, food, festival, heritage, and community; food and migration; food insecurity and chronic disease, and Latin American health. He is currently implementing Sobremesa, an oral history project examining narratives at the intersection of food, migration, place, and identity in Latin American communities and the Cuban diaspora.

He is the previous Co-Chair and remains involved with the Partnership for a Healthy Delaware County, which serves as the driver for the county Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). He currently serves as the Ohio Liaison for the Latino Caucus for Public Health.

• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)