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Food insecurity and health disparities disproportionately affect lower income communities and communities of color. These disparities are only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Access to healthy food should be a universal right.
It’s clear that we must reevaluate how food retail currently works in our country. We must rebuild a more equitable and just system. We can work together to promote food equity in our communities and across the country.
This tweetchat coincides with the new release of a National Research Agenda on healthy food retail, published as a Special Journal Issue.
Join #SaludTues at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 17, 2020, to tweet about the importance of healthy food retail environments for advancing health equity.
- WHAT: #SaludTuesTweetchat: How a Healthy Food Retail Environment Advances Health Equity
- WHEN: 1-2 p.m. ET, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020
- WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag #SaludTues
- HOST: @SaludAmerica
- CO-HOSTS: Healthy Eating Research (@HEResearch), CSPI (@CSPI), JHU Bloomberg School (@americanhealth), and The Food Trust (@thefoodtrust)
We’ll open the floor to data, resources and your experiences as we explore:
- What are the most urgent priorities for healthy food retail.
- How can we support access to healthy food for groups disproportionately affected by health inequities.
- And how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the gap and highlighted the need for us to act now.
Be sure to use the hashtag #SaludTues to follow the conversation on Twitter and share your strategies, stories, and resources that improve access to healthy food retail.
Click here to learn about the Salud America! #SaludTues tweetchats, see upcoming and past tweetchats, and see how you can get involved.
By The Numbers
1
Supermarket
for every Latino neighborhood, compared to 3 for every non-Latino neighborhood
