Education and Training
The Center for a Livable Future (CLF) applies a public health lens to understanding and addressing food systems issues. The Center stewards evidence to support meaningful food systems change through practice and policy and by providing education and training opportunities that highlight the application of science and systems thinking to build a healthy, just, equitable, and sustainable food system.
Resources for Prospective and Current Students
The Center for a Livable Future-Lerner Fellowship Program supports doctoral students at the Johns Hopkins University who are committed to the discovery and/or application of knowledge about public health challenges associated with the current food system, and/or the creation of a healthy, just, equitable, and sustainable food system. Read more about our fellows:
In addition to the CLF-Lerner Fellowship, we offer a wide array of courses, certificates, concentrations, degrees, scholarships, and other student-oriented opportunities. For detailed information on all of these CLF- or Bloomberg School–affiliated opportunities, click here. (LINK)
Resources for Teachers and Students of all Ages
The Center supports teachers and learners beyond the traditional university classroom. We raise awareness about food system issues through free courses, a textbook, lesson plans for teachers and more.
FoodSpan: Curriculum for high school teachers
Online courses through Coursera
Textbook: Introduction to the US Food System
Book: Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health
Book: What if CAFOs Were History?: The Rise of Regenerative Agriculture
Book: What if Soil Microbes Mattered?: Our Health Depends on Them
Training Opportunities for Journalists
Designed to help early- to mid-career journalists and led by journalist Tom Philpott, the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists supports ambitious reporting on topics rooted in the prevailing model of food production.
Learn more about the 2025 cohort and program:
Training Opportunities for Registered Dietitians
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CLF Educational Documentaries (YouTube)
Growing Solutions: 42-minute film that explores innovative approaches to challenges that plague farmers, including climate change.
Food Frontiers: 36-minute film that highlights six pioneering projects from around the country that are reducing food insecurity in communities.
Out to Pasture: 34-minute film that compares raising food animals on pasture with the prevailing industrial approach involving large-scale confinement.
Read about people who studied food systems with CLF
No one can say it better than the students themselves. Learn more about their journeys to becoming food system experts:
- MPH Concentration in Food Systems Certificate
- Certificate in Food Systems, the Environment and Public Health
- Addressing Disease with Food Access for All (Susan Kornacki)
- Enlightenment at the Food System Lab (Kenai McFadden)
