July 9, 2019 By Joanna Lyons Joanna Lyons received her Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley in 2019. The food system in the United States faces deep problems. While it may surpass production aims, it falls short from public health, environmental, and economic perspectives. From our nation’s alarmingly high…
This year, in an effort led by students, BFI and campus partners formed the Coalition for Healthy Campus Food and Beverages to bring more stakeholders into campus decision-making on food and beverage choices, uplift Berkeley values through procurement practices, and raise awareness of human and planetary health in the process.
May 15, 2019 By Sydney Bennet, Nick Draper, Irene Farnsworth, and Fiona McBride All authors are Master’s of Public Policy students at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. (From top left clockwise: Bennet, Draper, McBride, Farnsworth) In 2014, with the passage of Measure D, the city of Berkeley, California became the first…
February 25, 2019 By Kristine Madsen, MD MPH Dr. Kristine Madsen, a pediatrician, is the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Food Institute and an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. For almost a decade, I worked as a physician in a pediatric obesity clinic. Children from diverse neighborhoods showed up in my exam…
January 17, 2019 By Nina F. Ichikawa Nina F. Ichikawa is currently the Interim Director at the Berkeley Food Institute. The Berkeley Food Institute was honored to take part in the most recent issue of Policy Notes, the official publication of the Goldman School of Public Policy. One of our founding partner schools, Goldman (or GSPP…
December 12, 2018 By Meg Prier Meg Prier is Basic Needs Food Manager at the Berkeley Food Institute and member of the Basic Needs Committee Staff Leadership team. From the beginning, Basic Needs efforts and advocacy at UC Berkeley have been student initiated and led. We define “basic needs” as food, housing, and financial security.…