Digital technologies—such as online food pantry ordering systems and SNAP online pilot projects for grocery shopping—are increasingly being explored as tools to facilitate food access and reduce food insecurity. The twin public health and economic crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated these trends and intensified the need to use online technologies to [...]
Incentives to promote healthy eating, such as the Health Bucks program in New York City, are government-funded initiatives that aim to close the nutrition gap among populations that are disproportionately affected by poverty and poor access to high quality, affordable fruits and vegetables. In this forum, public officials, service providers, community-based organizations, researchers, and [...]
In this session, key New York City food policy makers will present the City’s newly released first ever 10-Year Food Policy Plan “Food Forward NYC” and will be joined by fellow food policy leaders from other cities to reflect on the next steps in the plan implementation and key lessons from similar policies being implemented [...]
March 2021 marks the fifth anniversary of CUNY SPH as a consolidated independent college within CUNY. This event is part of a series of events marking the school’s “Five Years Together.” Please join us for the launch and discussion of At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health, a new book by Nicholas [...]
Ashanté Reese Virtual Dean's Grand Rounds Ashanté Reese Dr. Ashanté Reese is assistant professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and is affiliated with the Departments of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned a PhD in Anthropology from American University in 2015 and a bachelors [...]
Food and gentrification are deeply—and, at times, controversially—intertwined and are likely to be even more complex as cities attempt to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyday practices such as growing, purchasing, and eating food reflect the rapid—and contentious—changes taking place in American cities in the twenty-first century. From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, [...]
On Tuesday, February 9th from 9:30-11:30 AM ET, several of the City’s leading food systems, anti-hunger and food justice organizations, including the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, will be convening the nonpartisan Mayoral Food Forum 2021: Town Hall on the Future of Food in New York City moderated by Errol Louis, Political Anchor, at NY1 [...]
The continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and food workers, the deepening economic crisis brought by the pandemic, and the continuing disruptions from climate change demand rethinking how federal food policies can contribute to improved human and planetary health. In November 2020 voters chose their next president and Congress, creating the [...]
The continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and food workers, the deepening economic crisis brought by the pandemic, and the continuing disruptions from climate change demand rethinking how federal food policies can contribute to improved human and planetary health. In November 2020 voters chose their next president and Congress, creating the [...]
Food insecurity has, sadly, increased with the onset of the pandemic. Host Tinabeth Pina is joined by Nick Freudenberg of CUNY's SPH, Pamela Koch of Columbia University, and Charles Platkin of Hunter's Food Policy Center to discuss this vital issue. Guest List Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public [...]
Young people are an untapped force for public health and food justice movements. In fact, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic many young adults have risen to the challenge and demonstrated that they have the ideas, energy, and passion to lead in fighting hunger in their communities and fill the gaps in our [...]
On September 30th, join the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, in collaboration with Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center and Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at Columbia University, for a jointly-organized online public forum "NY Food 20/20: Visions, Research and Recommendations for Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond." [...]
