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B'more Healthy Food Systems @BmoreHealthyFS

Current Project: Fresh Shelves, Healthy Pantries! 🍎 Studying and improving Baltimore's food system one step at a time. #BmoreHealthyFoods

Joined June 2015
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Our paper on #foodpantry digital needs was just published in the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition! Find out what the most desired digital management tools are according to food pantry managers and staff: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Current Use and Demand for Digital Tools to Enhance Food Pantry Management: Findings from a...

The objective of this study was to define the types of digital tools currently used and desired by food pantries for pantry management. A nationwide online survey of U.S. food pantries was conducte...

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The @JohnsHopkinsSPH is conducting a study about food environments for teens in Baltimore City. Learn more at: bit.ly/b_eat! #bloombergschoolofpublichealth #johnshopkins #publichealth #foodenvironment #baltimorecity #baltimore #baltimoreyouth
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The @JohnsHopkinsSPH is conducting a study about food environments for teens in Baltimore City 🍎🌮🍓🍔 Learn more at bit.ly/b_eat! #bloombergschoolofpublichealth #johnshopkins #publichealth #foodenvironment #baltimorecity #baltimore
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Check out @globalfoodman on @tiktok_us for fun and informative content related to all things food & culture, like why corner stores in Baltimore don't always stock healthy foods: tiktok.com/t/ZTRGxK16A/
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Check out the latest write-up on our BUD Project: publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/co…

Corner Stores, Healthy Foods | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The Baltimore Urban Food Distribution project aims to help corner stores offer fresh produce and other healthy options.

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Excited to share that our Baltimore Urban food Distribution (BUD) study protocol paper was officially published today in @IJERPH_MDPI! Check out the full paper here: mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/15/913… #HealthyFoodAccess #mHealth #Published #FoodSystems
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If you're in the #EastBaltimore area, head on over to Potomac Mini Mart for some fresh locally-grown Kale and Lettuce greens (pre-cut and ready to use!) from our friends at SpringForward™ as part of our Baltimore Urban food Distribution, or "BUD", project! 🥬
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Read about how we're filling in the gaps to improve online communications, training, and assistance to provide emergency access to food in light of COVID-19: pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.prox…
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"Development of a System Dynamics Model to Guide Retail Food Store Policies in Baltimore City" now available in @MDPIOpenAccess Nutrients: mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/9/3055

Development of a System Dynamics Model to Guide Retail Food Store Policies in Baltimore City

Policy interventions to improve food access and address the obesity epidemic among disadvantaged populations are becoming more common throughout the United States. In Baltimore MD, corner stores are...

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Check out our newly published journal article on food-seeking behaviors and food insecurity risk during COVID-19 among adults living in New York State @JNEBonline #NFACT #COVID19 #FoodInsecurity sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Our team recently published the article, "Exploring the Reasons for Low Usage and Informing Strategies to Improve Use of a Nonprofit Grocery Store in Baltimore City" in Ecology of Food and Nutrition. Check it out here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Exploring the Reasons for Low Usage and Informing Strategies to Improve Use of a Nonprofit Grocery...

Introducing new grocery stores into low-income communities has been a focus of policy efforts to improve the food environment. Yet, evidence of the impact of this strategy on diet and health outcom...

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We are looking to recruit children aged 9-13 and their caregivers to participate in a compensated interview to help improve sleep and stress here in #Baltimore! Please reach out to the phone number or email address provided below if you are interested. @globalfoodman
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New manuscript published TODAY (10/11) in IJERPH as part of the Special Issue Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating: "Healthy Food Retail during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Future Directions" Read it here: mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/20/739…
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"Culture, food, and racism: The effects on African American health" traces the lineage of African food tendencies to the patterns of food choices for African Americans in the US. scholar.utc.edu/honors-these…

Culture, food, and racism: the effects on African American health

Cultures can be influenced by a number of different factors, one of the most notable being food. Cultural food staples have often traveled from their country of origin of to be integrated into the...

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In this podcast episode, Leah Penniman of @soulfirefarm shares dynamic and enlightening conversations with the people who are flipping the table to create new ways to feed the world. rootsofchange.org/projects/p…

Podcast about the Future of Food and Farming - Roots of Change

Podcast: Flipping the Table Honest Conversations About Food, Farming and the Future     As a way to inform existing and new allies, ROC launched the Flipping the Table podcast […]

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This @PBS special takes a look at the extensive impact that industrial food systems currently have on Americans as told by advocates in Jackson, Mississippi who are using localized efforts to address food insecurity in under-served communities. pbs.org/video/fertile-ground…

Fertile Ground

Urban farmers address the problem of food insecurity in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Eric Jackson from the @BlackYield discusses everything from Black food co-ops to broader questions of Black liberation and self-determination, emerging out of the work to control out food-ways and food-systems. blackfoodjustice.org/nbfjabl…
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"As calls for abolition, defunding and disbanding police departments, and reallocating critical city resources animate the American landscape, we are facing an imminent opportunity to draw connections between people in prisons and our food system." civileats.com/2020/06/19/op-…

Op-ed: Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm

The struggle for abolition remains urgent. As we seek justice for people incarcerated and indentured in agriculture, there is hope in freeing ourselves to build nourishing food systems.

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If you are able to, please consider supporting some of our cherished local B'more Black-owned restaurants #BlackOwnedBusiness #SupportLocal
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