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Are you a city or county leader who wants to increase local access to healthy food?
You are invited to the Healthy Food Policy Project’s new webinar—”Supporting Healthy Food Access: Are There Local Laws For That?”—at 1p.m. EST on Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
About the Food Access Webinar
Food access is an important issues in our nation.
For example, fast food and corner stores outnumber supermarkets in many Latino neighborhoods, according to a Salud America! research review. This creates food swamps where obesity rises.
Cities and counties are using law and policy to support healthy eating in many ways. Laws can focus on socially disadvantaged groups, like Latinos. They can focus on environmental and economic goals, too.
The webinar will shocase the Healthy Food Policy Project’s database of 240 local food policies.
Webinar presenters will examine the policy database. They will show local officials can use the database to support healthy eating policy work across a wide array of communities.
The Healthy Food Policy Project
The Healthy Food Policy Project identifies and elevates local laws that seek to promote access to healthy food as well as contributing to strong local economies, an improved environment, and health equity.
The Project is a collaboration with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, the Public Health Law Center, and the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The project is funded by the USDA.
By The Numbers
1
Supermarket
for every Latino neighborhood, compared to 3 for every non-Latino neighborhood
