On April 27, join us for a book talk by Dr. Eduardo J. Gómez, Associate Professor and the Director of the Institute of Health Policy and Politics in the College of Health at Lehigh University, on his newest book “Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies” (Johns Hopkins [...]
From restaurant workers to grocery store staff, food workers risked their health to keep New York City running during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, food workers across the city — from Starbucks to Chipotle — are organizing for safer, fairer workplaces. What do these recent organizing efforts mean for the estimated 40,000 [...]
Earle C. Chambers, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Professor in the Department of Family and Social Medicine, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Health Behavior Research & Implementation Science), Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Director of the Department of Family and Social Medicine Research Division [...]
School meals are an important source of nutrition for the approximately 1.1 million students who attend New York City’s public schools, especially for those students who come from very low-income households. Since the 2017-2018 academic year, New York City has adopted universal free school lunch throughout the city’s more than 1,000 public elementary, middle and [...]
On February 24, join us for a book talk by Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Human Ecology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on her newest book "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (Forthcoming by University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Dr. [...]
A panel discussion to assess the potential and limits of the concept of ultraprocessed food to inform food policy and advocacy. Recent research suggests that ultraprocessed food – industrially prepared food high in fats, sugar, salt, additives and preservatives – makes a major contribution to the global and local rise in premature deaths [...]
Drawing on the seminal work of food policy scholars, activists, and trailblazers Marion Nestle and Robert Gottlieb, this urban food policy forum focuses on the key question of how to combine food policy scholarship and activism and examines it through an intergenerational dialogue. The two authors and guest speakers' most recent books, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (Nestle, 2022; University of California Press) and Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet (Gottlieb, 2022; MIT Press), will inform and frame this timely exchange. Nestle and Gottlieb will be joined by CUNY students who will facilitate the discussion and share their views and questions on this and related food policy and activism topics. Join us on December 15 for this virtual CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum!
This urban food policy forum focuses on the key question of how to translate into action some of the core ideas and solutions put forward at the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and the concurrently released National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Invited guest speakers will offer insights into this question in the context of three central food policy goals: making free school meals available to all, ending college food insecurity, and reducing corporate influences on community food environments, including through reducing predatory marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to young people. On November 17, join us for this virtual Urban Food Policy Forum!
This forum will address the policy dimensions of using institutional food procurement — or the food purchased with public dollars through government agencies and government-funded institutions — to advance racial equity. What are some of the different policy options and implementation strategies to achieve greater racial equity in the food system by leveraging the [...]
Our second annual meeting provides an opportunity to learn from fellow colleagues across the public health field. Presentations Include Commercial Determinants of Health: A New Framework for Improving Population Health and Reducing Health Inequities - Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH Racism-Related Stress and Burnout Among BIPOC Public Health Professionals During The COVID-19 Pandemic- April Avilés, EdD, [...]
Predatory marketing describes the practice of aggressive advertising of products known to damage health. A growing literature documents that predatory marketing of unhealthy food, alcohol, tobacco and other harmful products increases premature deaths and preventable illnesses and widens racial/ethnic, income, gender and other inequities in health. This session explores the strengths and weaknesses of [...]
This forum focuses on how cities can use food as a lever for climate change mitigation and the reduction of their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Can cities change institutional food to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions? What are the opportunities and barriers, and how do we track success? What does it mean for cities [...]
