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Shauna Downs @shaunamdowns
Joined January 2015
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UN-Nutrition@UN_Nutrition
28 Nov 2022
🚨OUT NOW! 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
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“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…

Food Prices Soar, and So Do Companies’ Profits (Published 2022)

Some companies and restaurants have continued to raise prices on consumers even after their own inflation-related costs have been covered.

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Lindsey Smith Taillie@lindseypsmith
26 Oct 2022
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
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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…

Climate Change Comes for the Freezers, a Key Tool for Alaska Natives (Published 2022)

Threatened by stronger storms and a melting permafrost, Indigenous Alaskans are grappling with how to keep the power running to their freezers, which store their traditional subsistence foods.

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Fascinating!!
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Shauna Downs retweeted
Helena Bottemiller Evich
@hbottemiller
30 Sep 2022
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-…

SNAP-Ed pays workers so little that some qualify for food benefits themselves

The Supplemental Nutrition Education Program (SNAP-Ed) is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and helps SNAP recipients learn how to eat healthy food on a budget. Its employees complain of...

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Shauna Downs retweeted
Rutgers Global Health Institute@RutgersGHI
26 Aug 2022
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…

Hiring Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty at Rutgers Global Health Institute

Faculty searches are underway: Cancer Care and Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa; Global Health; and Health Equity, Social Justice, and Population Health.

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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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Anna Herforth@AnnaWHerforth
6 Jul 2022
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…
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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…

Food Environments and Their Influence on Food Choices: A Case Study in Informal Settlements in...

The food environments that people have access to shape their food choices. The purpose of this study was to use mixed methods to characterize the external food environment in informal settlements in...

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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…

Opinion | What the War in Ukraine Means for the World’s Food Supply (Published 2022)

Nations are not secure unless their food supplies are.

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Elizabeth Fox@Doctora_Fox
25 Feb 2022
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
Cornell Public Health@CornellMPH
24 Feb 2022
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
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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…
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“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…

Feed the Hungry? You’ll Need a Permit for That. (Published 2021)

Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, is working on an ordinance that would restrict the practice of feeding homeless people who live on the street.

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Rutgers Global@RutgersGlobal
1 Dec 2021
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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Khristopher Nicholas, PhD@khrisnicholas
29 Nov 2021
🚨New article alert! 🚨 Exciting research getting to work with two of my favorite people (@shaunamdowns @jessfanzo) = 1 happy camper
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics@bermaninstitute
22 Nov 2021
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/…
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