Sustainable Food Systems & Diets
Land is where we spend nearly our entire lives and, as such, provides us with a plethora of environmental services, including food and energy. Yet, current land-use practices and food systems are contributing to ecosystem degradation and chronic diseases. Hopkins faculty across disciplines are working to shape policy and ecosystem landscape so that all people have access to nutritious, sustainable, and equitable diets.-
Chris Heaney
Associate ProfessorChristopher Heaney, PhD, MS, researches environmental epidemiology, occupational and environmental health, infectious diseases, water and health, global climate change, and community-based participatory research. -
Marisa Hughes
Senior Staff ScientistMarisa Hughes, PhD, focuses on incubating new research in understanding, mitigating, and adapting to the rapidly changing environment. This includes Earth sensing and modeling, climate readiness, environmental response and restoration, resource security, and source reduction. -
Brent Kim
Program Officer, Food Production & Public HealthBrent Kim, MSPH, researches issues from farm to fork, with published works on sustainable diets, climate change, industrial food animal production, food and agricultural policy, soil safety, and urban food systems. -
Sharon Kingsland
Professor EmeritaSharon Kingsland, PhD, researches many topics in the history of modern life sciences, with emphasis on the history of ecological science. She recently published A Lab for All Seasons: The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology, Yale University Press, 2023. -
Robert S. Lawrence
Professor EmeritusRobert S. Lawrence, MD, PhD, is interested in the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture, food security, and health and human rights. In 1996, Dr. Lawrence founded the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. -
Jason Lee
Data AnalystJason Lee, MSPH, specializes in developing and implementing novel statistical analysis approaches and experimental test designs to examine relationships within data across health care, science, and engineering. His primary interests lie in healthcare data analytics, including modeling quality of care dynamics, disease outbreak dynamics, and other health-related outcomes, as well as biometrics and biomedical engineering research.
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