Calling CUNY Students, Staff and Faculty interested in food and food policy!

CUNY students and faculty produce world-class research and writing on the topic of food policy, food justice, diet-related disease, hunger and food environments. The New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College, a think-and-do tank that aims to make New York a model for smart, fair food policy, wants to share your work with the many academics, city officials, agencies, local residents, nonprofits and advocates who look to CUNY to inform food policy in our city.  We invite you to submit a policy brief focusing on a particular food issue affecting New Yorkers to be posted publicly on our website.

 

Student submissions will be eligible to be considered for a cash prize, to be selected by a panel of CUNY faculty and staff.

 

To participate in this contest, please send us the following:

 

Guidelines:

A policy brief is a concise summary of an issue, the policy options to deal with it, the relevant supporting information, and a recommendation for action. The policy brief should be no more than 1000 words, and should utilize the format outlined below. Examples can be found on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Scholar’s Strategy Network websites.

 

Suggested topics (all with a New York City or comparative city focus)

·       Urban agriculture

·       Public markets

·       Public sector in food

·       Gentrification and food

·       Food marketing

·       Equity in the food system

·       Institutional meals

·       Food chain workers/good food jobs

·       Food retail/healthy food access and distribution

·       Local food environments

·       East/Central/West Harlem-specific food research

·       Diet-related disease

·       Hunger and food insecurity

·       2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization

·       School meals

Please submit briefs as Microsoft Word files. References should use AMA format. Include in the contact information your full name, title, major, department and anticipated graduation date (if applicable).

Deadline: May 15, 2015. Contest winners will be announced in June.

 

For more information, please contact Ashley Rafalow at [log in to unmask].

 

About the NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College:

The New York City Food Policy Center develops intersectoral, innovative and evidence-based solutions to preventing diet-related diseases and promoting food security in New York and other cities.  The Center works with policy makers, community organizations, advocates and the public to create healthier, more sustainable food environments and to use food to promote community and economic development. Through interdisciplinary research, policy analysis, evaluation and education, we leverage the expertise and passion of the students, faculty and staff of Hunter College and CUNY. The Center aims to make New York a model for smart, fair food policy.

Framework: (Source: Adapted from AACP )

A. Issue

·       State the issue for consideration. Briefly state what is important to you in the context of a current public policy issue and the relevance of the issue to your intended audience.

B. Background (not all of these may apply to every brief)

• Provide supporting information relevant to the issue and recommendation:
• List the actions you employ or activities in which you engage that demonstrate the importance of that issue to you;
• List the evidence-base used to establish the current laws or regulatory framework.

C. Recommendation

• State the action you seek in connection with the above stated issue. The recommendation may indicate the continuation, elimination, or amending of the issue. Be sure to include current evidence-base that supports

D. Current Law/ Policies

• List any current law or regulatory framework that authorizes or supports the issue.

E. References/Resources

• List the appropriate citations for the evidence-base you provide within the issue brief.
• List any additional resources that you deem important to support your recommendation.

F. Contact Information

• List the individuals the recipient of the issue brief can contact for more information about the issue.

 

 

Arlene Spark, EdD, RD, FADA, FACN

Professor of Nutrition

CUNY School of Public Health

Hunter College & The CUNY Graduate Center

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