September 22, 2018 By Nina F. Ichikawa Nina F. Ichikawa is the Policy Director at the Berkeley Food Institute. The news out of Washington is coming fast and furious, but farmers, food activists, and journalists are staying laser-focused on one thing: the Farm Bill. This $500 billion (over five years) omnibus legislation has passed the…
August 22, 2018 By Athena Roesler Athena Roesler received her MPH in 2018 from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Photos by Berkeley Unified School District. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), which have zero nutritional value, haunt parents, educators, social justice activists, and public health professionals alike. With new sources of funding from Bay Area SSB…
August 14, 2018 By Mackenzie Feldman and Annie Lu Mackenzie (top) graduated in May 2018 with a degree in Society and Environment with a minor in Food Systems. She was BFI’s UC Global Food Initiative Student Ambassador during the 2017-18 school year. Annie (bottom) graduated in May 2018 with a degree in Environmental Economics and…
August 14, 2018 By Dana Moskowitz Dana is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley and has a strong interest in public health and creating healthy communities. In her free time she reads, sews, and goes outside. Looking at a map of over 160 urban farms and community gardens in the East Bay region of the…
July 12, 2018 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. Her team published the first study on the impact of Berkeley’s soda tax. The soda industry just managed an end-run around the…
July 11, 2018 Berkeley Food Institute Researcher Vera L. Chang reflects on the meaning behind her prize-winning entry for Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology By Vera L. Chang Vera L. Chang is a Berkeley Food Institute researcher and a doctoral student at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. …