gardening – Public Health @ Cornell

Growing Farm-to-School

Katherine Lesser January 13, 2022 November 21, 2023Annual Report, One Health @ Cornell, Partners

Since our Program’s first year, MPH students, faculty, and staff have helped build coalitions with local agencies aiming to improve access to healthy food and education for youth and families in communities surrounding Cornell. Students have conducted needs assessments, written grant proposals, and designed and implemented evaluation plans for Universal…

Food Procurement and COVID-19

Katherine Lesser September 20, 2021 November 21, 2023About One Health + Planetary Health, Annual Report, MPH Alumni Stories, One Health @ Cornell

As unprecedented unemployment rates and disruptions in food supply chains have continued to unfold around the world, the pandemic has led to a substantial rise in food insecurity, which includes actual and perceived lack of access to nutritious food. In the United States and in New York State, record…