On January 12, at 3:30 p.m. (Brasília time), we held the seminar on Food Environment, Cities, and Dialogues with Public Policies in Brazil, offered by the Group for Studies, Research, and Practices on Food Environments and Health of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
How does the configuration of food environments shape the population’s health and true universal access to healthy food? How can cities ensure healthier food environments that promote changes in eating habits and have a positive impact on public health, while also being more inclusive and democratic?
To reflect on the ways in which cities and public policies interact to build fairer and healthier food environments, and on the decisive role that municipal government plays in this organization and in guaranteeing access to healthy food, whether in schools, in public spaces, or in the planning of the city, the Group for Studies, Research, and Practices on Food Environment and Health of the Federal University of Minas Gerais offers the seminar Food Environment, Cities, and Dialogues with Public Policies in Brazil.
The seminar was led by:
Larissa Loures Mendes – Holds a degree in Nutrition from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (2005), and a Master’s (2008) and PhD (2012) in Nursing from the School of Nursing of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Nutrition of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in the Graduate Program in Nutrition and Health of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and in the Graduate Program in Child and Adolescent Health of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and a collaborating professor in the Graduate Program in Public Health of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She leads the Group for Studies, Research, and Practices on Food Environment and Health (GEPPAAS) and is a member of the Belo Horizonte Urban Health Observatory (OSUBH), the Research Group on Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Public Health (PENSAP), the Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS) of the University of Coimbra, and the research group Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy at the Free University of Berlin.
Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso – Holds a degree in Nutrition from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2000), a master’s in Public Health from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2003), and a PhD in Public Health from the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP) at FIOCRUZ (2010), where she is a Public Health researcher in the Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health. She has experience in Nutrition and Public Health, with an emphasis on epidemiological research, working on projects addressing the following topics: the magnitude of nutritional disorders in populations, food consumption and practices, non-communicable chronic diseases, systems thinking, and urban health. Since 2015 she has been developing a line of research on the food environment in its various dimensions, analyzing and developing different measurement methods and their association with health outcomes. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Dornsife School of Public Health – Drexel University during 2015. She coordinated the Graduate Program in Epidemiology in Public Health at ENSP/FIOCRUZ between 2016 and 2019. She is a researcher with the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) and the Urban Health in Latin America project (SALURBAL), an associate editor of Cadernos de Saúde Pública, and has held a FAPERJ Young Scientist of Our State fellowship since 2016. She currently coordinates the Research Group on Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Public Health – PENSAP
Watch the full seminar below.
Materials
Presentation on food deserts and food swamps: impacts and current scenario
Presentation “What is the place of cities in the food system?”
