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Food insecurity in Washington State highest among low-income groups and persons of color
September 24, 2020
Food insecurity has spiked post Covid-19, affecting an estimated 30% of households in WA State and bringing many pre-existing social inequities to light. Highest rates were observed among households below the poverty line (58%), with some college education or less (44%), and for persons of color (42%). Households with children were also affected. Of the...
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Food insecurity rates have more than doubled since start of COVID-19 pandemic
September 15, 2020 | knkx.org
Since the onset of the pandemic, food insecurity rates have more than doubled in WA state, according to UW Nutritional Sciences and Center for Public Health Nutrition Center researchers who comment on the recently compiled the results from their first round of a statewide survey.
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Changes to food system needed to reduce consumer food waste, new report says
August 27, 2020 | UW School of Public Health
Jennifer Otten, associate professor in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program co-authored this new report which identifies recommendations for reducing consumer food waste at a national level.
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Food label fight splits EU
August 19, 2020 | CGTN
Adam Drewnowski comments on new food labeling proposed as a component of the ambitious European Green Deal.
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Collaborating for health equity
August 19, 2020 | UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Nutritional Sciences core faculty members Jennifer Otten, Adam Drewnwoski, Sarah Collier, and Yona Sipos awarded population health equity research grants by the UW Population Health Initiative.
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School awarded six COVID-19 population health equity grants
August 17, 2020 | UW School of Public Health
Nutritional Sciences Program faculty Jennifer Otten, Adam Drewnowksi, Sarah Collier, Yona Sipos among researchers involved in new UW Population Health Initiative COVID-19 healthy equity research projects. Read more about the studies in this story by UW School of Public Health.
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Obama-era school nutrition policy led to better diets for students but faces changes
July 28, 2020 | UW School of Public Health
UW Nutritional Sciences researchers Jessica Jones-Smith, Cristen Harris and Kelsey Kinderknecth conducted the first nationally representative study to assess specifically how the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act – championed by former first lady Michelle Obama and signed into law by former President Barack Obama – impacted the overall nutritional quality of school meals eaten by students, rather than meals served.
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Study asks Washington state residents to describe food security and access during pandemic, economic downturn
June 24, 2020 | UW News
Online survey launched by Center for Public Health Nutrition gathers data on how the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic downturn have affected food access and economic security to Washington state residents.
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Statewide survey could map how COVID-19 is affecting food security, economics
June 24, 2020 | KNKX
Research studying food security in WA state affected by COVID-19 is highlighted, featuring project leads Adam Drewnowski and Jennifer Otten. The study is conducted in partnership with Washington State University, Tacoma Community College, and partners in local, county and state governments.
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It’s time to rethink the disrupted US food system from the ground up
June 5, 2020 | The Conversation
Jennifer Otten and Sarah Collier, discuss a key vulnerability at the very foundation of the food system: soil. On farms and ranches across the U.S., the health of soil is seriously compromised today. The article covers what’s at stake if we don’t begin addressing this soil health as a key resource, and how we should go about it.
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