|  | Highlighted Resources |  | The Center for a Livable Future announces 2009-2010 Innovation Grant Recipients
Five research projects will be funded through the Center for a Livable Future's Innovation Grants program. Each year, the program provides support for innovative interdisciplinary study by Johns Hopkins University faculty, fellows or graduate students. The purpose of the grants is to promote research that addresses some of the complex interactions among diet, human health, food production, food security, equity, and the environment....Read More....
| | 10 in 10: Ensure Every American Child Has Access to Healthy and Affordable Food: A “Gentle” Wish For a New Decade
A new decade brings new opportunities and challenges. The interaction between diet and health received significant attention during “The Aughts.” What will we do during this next decade to respond to the call for action for a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle? This is the second in a continuing series highlighting 10 ways you can help this year....Read More....
| | Baltimore’s HoopVillage Dedication Ceremony
 Safe Healing Foundation and Civic Works recently celebrated the first harvests from HoopVillage, an urban agriculture project in Northeast Baltimore. CLF’s role in the project includes conducting a community food assessment of the surrounding neighborhood. Built on the Lake Clifton High School campus, the initial phase of HoopVillage consists of three hoop houses (greenhouse structures like the one shown above) which will enrich youth academics, fresh local food access, entrepreneurial opportunities and healthy community living.
| | CLF Experts Discuss Cost of Antibiotic Resistance with Congress
CLF hosted a packed Congressional briefing room yesterday on Capitol Hill, which brought together leading experts in economics, public health and public policy and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), a leading voice on antibiotic resistance, to discuss the impact of resistant infections on the U.S. healthcare system and the need to phase out inappropriate use of antibiotics as growth promoters in the production of food animals....Read More....
| | CLF’s Director Robert Lawrence Receives APHA’s Highest Honor
Robert S. Lawrence, MD, director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for a Livable Future (CLF), has been presented with the Sedgwick Award Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health, the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) oldest and most prestigious award. The award was established to recognize distinguished service to public health. Lawrence was presented with the award at the Public Health Awards Reception & Ceremony on November 11 in Philadelphia, Pa., at the close of APHA’s 137th Annual Meeting and Exposition.....Read More.....
| | House Bill would Ban Roxarsone from Poultry Production
U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) got folks in New York’s 2nd Congressional District talking turkey about the potential hazards that may be in their Thanksgiving meal. With a Thanksgiving dinner–complete with all the trimmings–serving as a backdrop, Israel used the press conference to formally announce legislation he introduced in the U.S. House to get arsenic out of the nation’s poultry supply......Read More.....
| | ‘Vertical Farming’ Pioneer Presents Details to JHSPH Audience
 Dickson Despommier brought his idea for vertical urban farms to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and his audience of more than 100 people responded with a mixture of enthusiasm and skepticism.....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.
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