{"id":5,"date":"2026-09-04T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:24:25","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the <strong>CHOMP (Consumer Health, Outcomes, Markets, and Policy)<\/strong> Lab, we are interested in the factors that lead to the population level obesity epidemic, and what we can do to fight it using public policies. Our research primarily focuses on two areas: healthy eating and retail, and social safety net programs like SNAP. Drawing on a detailed consumer food purchase dataset, we aim to better understand the retail food environment to promote effective health policy interventions. The lab\u2019s current work focuses on the role of dollar stores in the food retail landscape, household-level food acquisition and dietary quality, the administrative burden of social safety net programs, and regulatory policymaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CHOMP Lab is directed by Dr. Wenhui Feng, Assistant Professor of Public Health at URI. &nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the CHOMP (Consumer Health, Outcomes, Markets, and Policy) Lab, we are interested in the factors that lead to the population level obesity epidemic, and what we can do to fight it using public policies. Our research primarily focuses on two areas: healthy eating and retail, and social safety net programs like SNAP. Drawing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chomp-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}