AWARDS | Innovation GrantsFaculty and Student Innovation Grants The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Innovation Grants program has been discontinued. From 1999-2009 the program supported 73 research projects to help the center in its mission to address the complex interactions among diet, human health, food production, food security, equity, and the environment. Funds supported faculty, staff and students in 20 departments and divisions throughout the university. Most of the Innovation Grant program-supported research projects have led to larger research projects and/or published scientific papers, and a significant portion led to external grant support. Research topics addressed ranged from the "Historical and Cultural Significance of Soybean Byproducts" to "Food Animal Transport as a source of Community Exposures to Health Hazards from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations;" to "Increasing Food Security for the Inner-City Population in Baltimore." The program was particularly successful in supporting projects that helped elevate the research and policy attention given to public health impacts of industrial food animal production. Summary information about each innovation grant award and their outcomes will remain on CLF's website for future reference. We made the decision to discontinue the program in order to more specifically target research funds to prioritized research needs. The Center continues to work with faculty throughout the university to identify priority research needs and innovative approaches.
Grants Awarded: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 2009 The Rise of a Meat-Intensive Diet and the Seeds of a Sustainable/Healthy Food Movement in China
Eliza Barclay, MA Student, Writing Seminars Dept. Program Evaluation: Richmond High School’s UrbanAgriculture Program (Richmond, CA)
Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl, MPH Student, Global Env. Sustainability and Health Program Population-Based Evaluation of Primary Care Patients with MRSA in Relation to Animal Feeding Operations in Pennsylvania
Brian Schwartz, MD, MHS, Professor, EHS
Co-Investigator: Walter Stewart, PhD, Assoc. Chief Research Officer, Center for Health Research, Geisinger Health System Integrating food safety and food security: a case study in Baltimore City
Ellen Silbergeld, PhD, Associate Professor, EHS and Joel Gittelsohn, PhD Assoc. Professor, IH Partnering with African American Churches to Modify the Food Environment: Reducing Risk for Obesity and Chronic Disease in Urban Areas
Amber Summers, MPH, PhD Student, HBS
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