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.-
Raychel Santo
Senior Program Coordinator, Food Production & Public Health, Food Communities & Public HealthRaychel Santo, MSc, works on a variety of projects related to local/regional food policy councils and governance (through the Food Policy Networks project), the relationship between diet and climate change, urban agriculture, and institutional food procurement. -
Liz Nussbaumer
Project Director, Seafood, Public Health & Food Systems ProjectLiz Nussbaumer, MPP, has research interests in ocean acidification and its effect on fisheries, as well as industrial poultry operations, pollution trading, bottled water, renewable energy and more. -
Anne Palmer
Associate ScientistAnne Palmer, MAIA, builds the capacity of food policy councils to work on issues such as hunger, food environments, and racial equity to create healthy, equitable and sustainable food systems. -
Elizabeth Reilly
Assistant Group Supervisor, Artificial Intelligence GroupDr. Elizabeth P. Reilly is a senior staff scientist whose research focuses on graph theoretic analysis of intelligent systems. Her recent work includes studying the brain to revolutionize the future of computing, developing theory for understanding and effecting emergent behavior in complex networks, and modeling the complex relationship between food security and civil conflict. -
Brian Schwartz
ProfessorBrian Schwartz, MD, MS, GME ’90, uses environmental epidemiology to evaluate the drivers of sustainability health impacts, such as energy, agriculture, and built environments -
Richard Semba
ProfessorRichard D. Semba, MD, MA, MPH, conducts research on major conditions affecting human health, including age-related macular degeneration, child malnutrition and growth failure, and loss of muscle mass and strength with older age using proteomics, metabolomics, and mass spectrometry.
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