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EarthSky Communications Interviews CLF Director on Dangers of Antibiotics

CLF Director Testifies at House Hearing on ‘No Child Left Inside Act’

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

May - June 2009 Newsletter

Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Announces RFP for Innovation Grants
For the 11th 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 is Friday, July 24....Read More....
  

Periodic Reminders May Help Improve Healthy Behaviors
Periodic prompts and reminders could be an effective strategy for improving healthy behaviors, according to a review of published studies by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health....Read More....
  

CLF- Supported Study Finds Parents' Influence on Children's Eating Habits Is Small
The popular belief that healthy eating starts at home, and that parents' dietary choices help children establish their nutritional beliefs and behaviors, may need rethinking, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

An examination of dietary intakes and patterns among U.S. families found that the resemblance between children's and their parents' eating habits is weak. The results are published in the May 25 issue of Social Science and Medicine....Read More....
  

CLF Expert Briefs Congressional Staff on Water Hazards Posed by CAFOs
Washington, DC—Over 45 Congressional staff members and concerned citizens crowded into a small conference room on Capitol Hill last week to hear from a panel of experts about the effects of large animal feeding operations on clean water....Read More....
  

“Farmacology”
The latest issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine explores how industrial farming could be a potential source for antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with support from the School’s Center for a Livable Future, are investigating the use of antibiotics in factory farming, which cultivates more than poultry and livestock. The complete cover story “Farmacology” is available here.

Additional information on the use of antibiotics in animals can be found in the report, “Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America,” a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
  

Is There a Connection between IFAP and the Ongoing Swine Flu Outbreak? 
The ongoing outbreak of Swine Flu / novel influenza A (H1N1) highlights one of the many serious public health risks that industrial food animal production (IFAP) poses on a global scale. It is known that pigs are “mixing vessels” for influenza viruses (for swine, avian and human flu), and it is believed that the last two flu pandemics, in 1957 and 1968, broke out when avian flu and human flu viruses mixed genetically with pig viruses to create a new flu virus that was transferred back to people....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.
"Where the Health Can You Eat Around Here?" East Baltimore Campus Booklet

Archived Features

To promote research and to develop and communicate information about the complex interrelationships among diet, food production, environment and human health; to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public; and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment and the ability to sustain life for future generations.