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Assistant Professor
Oklahoma State University
Allison Hepworth, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Her research focuses on describing how individuals find and apply information about nutrition from online sources, such as food blogs, Instagram, and Pinterest. She uses data science skills such as webscraping, natural lanauge processing, and machine learning to describe digital food media. Previously, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in community-based reserach at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned her PhD, MS, and BS in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State University.