Faculty Profile

Tara Maudrie

Tara Maudrie, PhD, MSPH

Assistant Professor, Social Work
Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
As an Indigenous nutrition and food systems scholar, Dr. Tara Maudrie’s work focuses on relational, cultural, and ecological intersections with physical and mental health within Indigenous communities. Grounded in community-based participatory research and informed by her identity as a citizen of the Sault Ste Marie Nation of Chippewa Indians, her research examines how Indigenous foodways and intergenerational knowledge sharing support holistic wellbeing and nutrition.

  • 2024 PhD Public Health (Social and Behavioral Interventions)
    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  • 2021 MSPH Public Health (Human Nutrition)
    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  • 2019 BS Pre-Health Professional Studies
    Oakland University, Rochester Hills, MI

  • American Indian/Alaska Native Health 
  • Nutrition
  • Food Systems
  • Food Sovereignty
  • Community-Based Participatory Research 
  • Indigenous Research Methodologies 

  • Maudrie TL, Clyma KR, Nguyen CJ, O"Keefe VM, Reinhardt M, Segrest V, Lewis ME, Stanger-McLaughlin T, Redvers N, Young P, Flanagan H, Hare-RedCorn EL, Dubray EM, Norris A, Bray KE, Blue Bird Jernigan V. “It Matters Who Defines It”—Defining Nutrition through American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Worldviews. Current Developments in Nutrition. 2024 July 25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.104429
  • Maudrie TL, Caulfield LE, Nguyen CJ, Walls ML, Haroz EE, Moore LR, Dionne-Thunder RG, Vital J, LaFloe B, Norris A, Dionne V. Community-Engaged Development of Strengths-Based Nutrition Measures: The Indigenous Nourishment Scales. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2024;21(11):1496. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11593815
  • Maudrie TL, Nguyen CJ, Lopez SV, Clyma KR, Gabriel K, Hayman J, Hudgins A, Jernigan VBB. Community-Engaged Development of a Nutrition Curriculum: The Go Healthy Indigenous-Supported Agriculture Study. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2025;57(2):99-110. PMCID: PMC11805643.
  • Maudrie TL, Colón-Ramos U, Harper KM, Jock BW, Gittelsohn J. A scoping review of the use of indigenous food sovereignty principles for intervention and future directions. Current Developments in Nutrition. 2021;5(7): nzab093. PMCID: PMC8321882
  • Maudrie TL, Nguyen CJ, Wilbur RE, Mucioki M, Clyma KR, Ferguson GL, Jernigan VBB. Food Security and Food Sovereignty: The Difference Between Surviving and Thriving. Health Promot Pract. 2023;24(6):1075-1079. PMCID: 37877640. * Paper of the Year
  • Maudrie TL, Aulandez KMW, O'Keefe VM, Whitfield FR, Walls ML, Hautala DS. Food Stress and Diabetes-Related Psychosocial Outcomes in American Indian Communities: A Mixed Methods Approach. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2022;54(12):1051-1065. PMCID: PMC9742178.   * Paper of the Year

Areas of Expertise: Nutrition