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July 15, 2008
Table Matters: How Industrial Animal Farms Impact Health and the Environment

July 22, 2008
Food and Faith Project Summer Film Series

Sign Up for 2008 CSA Program  

New Online: View CLF Director's keynote address at Iowa State University

What does the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill have to do with Public Health?

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) at JHSPH
  
         

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Twelve Predoctoral Fellowships Awarded
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) has awarded predoctoral fellowships to 12 students for the 2008-2009 academic year. This year, for the first time, CLF Predoctoral Fellowships have been awarded to Johns Hopkins University predoctoral students who are committed to the discovery and/or application of knowledge in one of CLF’s three program areas: Farming for the Future; Eating for the Future; and Living for the Future.....Read More....
     

CLF Research Fellow Testifies Before Senate CommitteeJay Graham
Washington, DC—Jay Graham, PhD and CLF Research Fellow, was one of six panelists asked to speak recently before a U.S. Senate Committee investigating antimicrobial resistance in the US....Read More....
  

Lecturer Calls for More Testing on Chemicals Affecting Endocrine Systemtheo
The vast quantities of chemicals found in everyday life are building in the human body and having a profound effect on everything––from our ability to reproduce to the development of our brains, noted Theo Colborn, PhD,  founder of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange....Read More....
    

Online Course Schedule Set for Second Term....Read More....
  

CLF Announces RFP for Innovation Grants Program
For the 10th year, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) will be offering Innovation Grants for innovative, interdisciplinary study by Johns Hopkins University faculty, fellows, and graduate students. The deadline for grant applications in August 11....Read More....
  

Robert S. Lawrence Named Inaugural Center for a Livable Future Professorbob
Robert S. Lawrence, MD, professor and founder of the Center for a Livable Future, was named the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s inaugural Center for a Livable Future Professor. A formal installation ceremony was held at the Bloomberg School on June 3, 2008...Read More....
    

Second Year Begins for CSA at JHSPH!image
Community Supported Agriculture is bigger than ever this year at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Colorful rainbow chard, crisp spinach, and bright red strawberries topped the list of favorite items recently when the CSA kicked off the beginning of it’s second year...Read More....
           

Pew Commission Releases Final Report
Washington, D.C.—April 2008—The current industrial farm animal production (IFAP) system often poses unacceptable risks to public health, the environment and the welfare of the animals themselves, according to a report released April 30 by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP).....Read More....
    

Meatless Monday Project
Learn about Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's role in the national campaign to moderate meat consumption and encourage healthy alternatives.

Meatless Monday"Where the Health Can You Eat Around Here?" East Baltimore Campus Booklet 

    

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