🚨OUT NOW!
The #UNNJournal on #TransformingNutrition looks at the challenges affecting #nutrition & identifies possible solutions by sharing insights on how to unlock 🔓 the full potential of nutrition to support sustainable development.
Check it out👉https://t.co/X8yRSZuuLw
“PepsiCo, whose prices for its drinks and chips were up 17 percent in the latest quarter from year-earlier levels, reported that its third-quarter profit grew more than 20 percent…Coca-Cola reported profit up 14 percent from a year earlier.” https://t.co/LeAZyadMSj
I already knew feeding a 5y healthy food at school was hard, but I never accounted for the time factor. She gets so little time to eat, and she can't open packages well or chew quickly. n/1
Climate change is impacting food systems in so many ways…”[freezers] hold a winter’s supply of wild food to offset the high cost of groceries flown in by plane. Freezers preserve generations-old harvest practices and underpin delicate village economies.” https://t.co/Ml1lvXCYhH
Wow: "The SNAP-Ed program, which aims to educate food insecure individuals about healthy eating on a budget, pays its employees poorly — so poorly that they often experience food insecurity themselves or work second jobs."
Great reporting @DanaHCronin: https://t.co/1PijDxfc7s
We're hiring! Searches are underway for these tenure-track/tenured faculty positions at @RutgersGHI:
✅ Cancer Care & Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa
✅ Global Health
✅ Health Equity, Social Justice & Population Health
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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 3 year post doc with skills in evaluation, and preferably strong interest in food, diet, food systems, health and sustainability. We're going to be evaluating a range of food system interventions at/in different levels and sectors
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Today the UN launches #SOFI2022 centering on the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet, our indicators from #FoodPricesforNutrition. Overjoyed to hear the world talking about how to "repurpose food and ag policies to make healthy diets more affordable"! https://t.co/4DEWsG3TDF
Paper just out looking at food environment dimensions in informal settlements in Nairobi. I’m grateful for the wonderful team of researchers (including @Doctora_Fox), partners (@GthaminiOrg), students, and funding from @RutgersGlobal that made this happen! https://t.co/oY0aiWrZKh
Congratulations @Doctora_Fox!! So well deserved!! You are such a thoughtful mentor — your students (and everyone else who works with you!) are so lucky to have you! 🤗
"Food security is essential for a nation’s security. Throughout history, we have seen conflict disrupt food supplies and, even more troubling, turn food into a weapon of war." What the War in Ukraine Means for the World’s Food Supply https://t.co/bIYiftwmgV
Our new paper is out in the @WHOBulletin describing how to build nutrition programs that are more climate-sensitive. Such a pleasure working on this with the amazing @HannahNissan and @simmonswilliam_! https://t.co/nhYo4IL9kP