Environmental Health
Food Matters provides resources for health care professionals to promote environmental health. Intended for families and communities, these resources include papers, brochures, and online videos featuring experts explaining issues pertaining to reproductive health and food. Its website includes links to relevant other resources.
Food Matters is a...
The Good Food Purchasing Program transforms the way public institutions purchase food by providing a metric based, flexible framework that encourages large institutions to direct their buying power toward five core values: local economies, environmental sustainability, valued workforce, animal welfare, and nutrition. The Good Food Purchasing Program...
This research article looks at how local food systems may facilitate agroecological practices that conserve nutrient, energy, and water resources. The authors estimate the upper potential for all existing US croplands to meet total US food demand through local food networks.
With a strong presence of the health sciences in research and education at UC Merced, HSRI is focused on promoting all research in the human health sciences to improve awareness, advocacy and action of health and health disparities.
Goals include:
- Establish health research and training as a signature theme at UC Merced
- ...
