Center for a Livable Future
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future—working toward a healthy, equitable, resilient food system from within the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.
Stories and Viewpoints
True Cost Accounting: Can We Put a Price Tag on Extraction and Exploitation?
Frameworks for quantifying the impact of the current food system models.
For Climate Crisis and Malnutrition, Look at Diet Choice in Context
We must not prescribe a “one-size-fits-all,” Western-centric solution to the challenges of diet and climate.
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Dan O’Brien: Bison, Prairies and Climate Change
Bison rancher Dan O’Brien has ideas about how to restore the Great Plains—buffalo.
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Food Policy Councils: Is There a Best Structure?
FPCs of all organizational types are converging around similar concepts and sharing similar language to discuss the food system.
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MPH Concentration
Our first cohort of concentration students took place in the academic year 2017-2018, and in May, 2018, we celebrated their successful completion.
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FoodSpan
A downloadable curriculum that provides high school teachers with lesson plans relating to food system issues.
Free Online Courses
“An Introduction to the US Food System: Perspectives from Public Health,” offered through the University’s partnership with Coursera.