December 4, 2019 By Rachel Maas and Caroline Hart In fall 2019 students in the Graduate Certificate in Food Systems core course “Transforming Food Systems: From Agroecology to Population Health” visited community organizations in the East Bay. The following reflections are a sample of how these visits changed students’ understanding of food systems. Rachel Maas…
September 18, 2019 By Kristine Madsen Dr. Kristine Madsen is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and serves as Faculty Director for the Berkeley Food Institute. Our food system is driving one of the most pressing problems we confront in the 21st century: diet-related disease. As a recent Op-Ed in the…
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…