Education

Resources for Johns Hopkins students

The Center for a Livable Future leads a variety of food systems training opportunities based within the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the largest institution of its kind in the world and home to 10 departments and numerous specializations.

CLF applies a public health lens to the food system and emphasizes practice and policy in providing training opportunities that highlight issues related to equity, sustainability, and resilience.

The Department of Environmental Health and Engineering offers a Master of Health Science (MHS) degree with a Food Systems, Water, and Environmental Sustainability area of interest and a PhD track in Environmental Sustainability, Resilience and Health (ESRH) with a food systems topical focus. The School’s Bloomberg American Health Initiative supports MPH and DrPH fellows in the Food Systems for Health and Environmental Challenges focus areas.

The Center offers the following opportunities at the School for students interested in food systems:

• CLF-Lerner Fellowships for Doctoral Students

• The Cynthia & Robert S. Lawrence Fellowship

• Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists

• Certificate in Food Systems, the Environment and Public Health

• MPH Concentration in Food Systems

• BSPH Courses: On-campus and Online

• Research Assistant Opportunities

• Research and Project Ideas for Students

• Who Studied Food Systems with CLF?

Resources for teachers and students of all ages

The Center strives to support 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
• Food System Primer
• Online courses through Coursera
• Food System Lab @ Cylburn
• Textbook: Introduction to the US Food System
• 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.

Addressing Disease with Food Access for All

With an MPH Concentration in Food Systems, Susan Kornacki is using a multidisciplinary approach to pave the way for healthy food access for all.

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Five Fellows Collaborate to Tackle the Public Health Implications of Industrial Food Animal Production

Five CLF-Lerner Fellows spanning 17 years of fellowship support are still collaborating on research regarding industrial food animal production.

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Pastor, Fellow, Researcher: Bringing Equity into the Food System

Darriel Harris is the first Cynthia and Robert S. Lawrence Fellow at the Bloomberg School.

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