Author Archives: kimhodgson

Teaching the Food System

John Hopkins’ Center for a Livable Future developed a new, FREE food systems curriculum for high schools, colleges and universities across North America. The curriculum includes 11 modules (lesson plans, slides, handouts, vocabulary builders and other materials) and is designed to teach students about “relationships between diet, health, food production, the environment, population and equity.” For more information, visit: http://www.jhsph.edu/teachingfood/.

Designing for Health

Dr. Richard Jackson recently teamed up with PBS to create a new series called Designing Healthy Communities, which “looks at the impact our built environment has on key public health indices – obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and depression.” For more information visit http://designinghealthycommunities.org/.