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The #UNNJournal on #TransformingNutrition looks at the challenges affecting #nutrition & identifies possible solutions by sharing insights on how to unlock 🔓 the full potential of nutrition to support sustainable development.
Check it out👉bit.ly/3u05bED
“PepsiCo, whose prices for its drinks and chips were up 17 percent in the latest quarter from year-earlier levels, reported that its third-quarter profit grew more than 20 percent…Coca-Cola reported profit up 14 percent from a year earlier.” nytimes.com/2022/11/01/busin…
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I already knew feeding a 5y healthy food at school was hard, but I never accounted for the time factor. She gets so little time to eat, and she can't open packages well or chew quickly. n/1
Climate change is impacting food systems in so many ways…”[freezers] hold a winter’s supply of wild food to offset the high cost of groceries flown in by plane. Freezers preserve generations-old harvest practices and underpin delicate village economies.” nytimes.com/2022/10/04/dinin…
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Wow: "The SNAP-Ed program, which aims to educate food insecure individuals about healthy eating on a budget, pays its employees poorly — so poorly that they often experience food insecurity themselves or work second jobs."
Great reporting @DanaHCronin: kcur.org/2022-09-30/snap-ed-…
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We're hiring! Searches are underway for these tenure-track/tenured faculty positions at @RutgersGHI:
✅ Cancer Care & Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa
✅ Global Health
✅ Health Equity, Social Justice & Population Health
🔁 Retweet to spread the word!
globalhealth.rutgers.edu/fac…
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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 3 year post doc with skills in evaluation, and preferably strong interest in food, diet, food systems, health and sustainability. We're going to be evaluating a range of food system interventions at/in different levels and sectors
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/36393/
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Today the UN launches #SOFI2022 centering on the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet, our indicators from #FoodPricesforNutrition. Overjoyed to hear the world talking about how to "repurpose food and ag policies to make healthy diets more affordable"! fao.org/webcast/home/en/item…
Paper just out looking at food environment dimensions in informal settlements in Nairobi. I’m grateful for the wonderful team of researchers (including @Doctora_Fox), partners (@GthaminiOrg), students, and funding from @RutgersGlobal that made this happen! mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/13/257…
Congratulations @Doctora_Fox!! So well deserved!! You are such a thoughtful mentor — your students (and everyone else who works with you!) are so lucky to have you! 🤗
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This Manifesto for #leadership for achieving a well nourished world is fantastic! Such good vibes! #nextgenDerationleaders
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"Food security is essential for a nation’s security. Throughout history, we have seen conflict disrupt food supplies and, even more troubling, turn food into a weapon of war." What the War in Ukraine Means for the World’s Food Supply nytimes.com/2022/03/01/opini…
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A nice collaboration with @shaunamdowns on some of our work on women’s individual factors and their interactions with the #foodenvironment and food choice decisions #driversoffoodchoice
Dr. Elizabeth Fox, an assistant professor of practice at @cornellvet, and Dr. Shauna Downs of @RutgersSPH recently co-authored a paper published in the journal Appetite that examines the drivers of food choice among women in Nairobi, Kenya.
Read more: bit.ly/35j5otr
Our new paper is out in the @WHOBulletin describing how to build nutrition programs that are more climate-sensitive. Such a pleasure working on this with the amazing @HannahNissan and @simmonswilliam_! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
“People are just hungry, and we have to feed them...This can’t be buried in bureaucratic morasses. We have to be able to respond to a need — these are life-or-death issues.”
Feed the Hungry? You’ll Need a Permit for That. nytimes.com/2021/12/14/nyreg…
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Announcing the 2022 @RutgersGlobal Grants! These modest seed grants are offered yearly to all tenured, tenure-track, clinical, or NTT faculty with Rutgers appointments. Deadline: 1/28/22. Visit: global.rutgers.edu/rutgers-g…
#RUGlobal @RutgersGHI @RutgersU @RutgersRCI
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🚨New article alert! 🚨
Exciting research + getting to work with two of my favorite people (@shaunamdowns @jessfanzo) = 1 happy camper
Examining the trade-offs of palm oil production and consumption from a sustainable diets perspective: lessons learned from Myanmar -
Shauna Downs, Khristopher Nicholas, Kay Khine Linn, & our @JessFanzo | Public Health Nutrition cambridge.org/core/journals/…
