IN THIS ISSUE: Evaluation - An important and underutilized tool for food systems work - An Interview with Rachel Dannefer; West Side Campaign Against Hunger Digital Choice Online Ordering Pilot Evaluation - Executive Summary; Farms at NYCHA: Final Evaluation Report; GrowNYC Grainstand: Evaluation Brief / Suggested Readings & Resources / Policy Highlights / Previous Video Recording [...]
Rachel Dannefer is an experienced public health evaluator and researcher, and a CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute Fellow and PhD student at CUNY. She has dedicated her career to conducting public health evaluations in New York City. We sat down with Rachel to discuss the power of evaluation for strengthening public health and food systems [...]
IN THIS ISSUE: Featured Interviews & Articles: Student Perspective: Making CUNY a Place to Educate and Organize New York City Food Workers: A Call to Action; Barboncino Workers United: Interview with Alex Dinndorf; A Human Rights Approach to Food and Labor, article by Jacquelyn Sullivan / Suggested Readings & Resources / Policy Highlight / Previous [...]
On July 14, 2023, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, released a both timely and necessary report entitled “Food, nutrition and the right to health.” In light of current global turmoil and instability, the international community has been rendered particularly vulnerable to food and health-related challenges. In her role as [...]
On July 26, 2023, in a unanimous election, workers at Barboncino, a pizzeria in Crown Heights, voted to join Workers United, becoming the first unionized pizzeria in New York City. Workers at Barboncino organized to improve working conditions, calling for better wages, clear disciplinary procedures, and a zero-tolerance policy against harassment of all kinds. Luis [...]
Luis Saavedra, a Research Associate at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute (CUFPI) and a student in the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Masters in Public Health program, reflects on his experience as an undocumented undergraduate student in the early 2010s at CUNY and the parallels with the experience of CUNY [...]
IN THIS ISSUE: Featured Interviews & Articles: The Campaign Against CUNY’s Pouring Rights Contract with PepsiCo: An Interview with Eman Faris; The National Movement to End Pouring Rights Contract: Interview with Catherine Cochran and Daphne Crother; Lessons from the NYC DOHMH's Fight Against Big Soda: Interview with Thomas Merrill; Envisioning a Sustainable CUNY Food System: Interview [...]
Image Credit The fight to end CUNY’s 10-year $21 million Pouring Rights Contract (PRCs) with Pepsi Co. is not just a local fight for a healthier and sustainable campus lifestyle. It is fought across the country among various campuses such as the University of California Davis (UC Davis) and is led by students and supported [...]
Image Credit Nicholas Freudenberg is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at CUNY SPH and Founding Director and Senior Faculty Fellow at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, is a true champion of promoting health and well-being in urban communities. With a wealth of experience and an extensive academic background, Professor Freudenberg is at the [...]
Image Credit NAANA DEI (ND): In your experience, what are some of the tools that corporations use to gain public support against health bills such as the soda tax? How can we leverage those tools and use them for public health advocacy? THOMAS MERRILL (TM): They are really good at messaging. They have ad companies [...]
