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By Rupa Palanki, HLPC Student, Fall 2024 On September 13 and 14, I had the privilege of attending the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA) in New Orleans, Louisiana. This […]
Health Care on the Ballot The Affordable Care Act (ACA) – the signature federal health reform legislation signed into law by President Obama in 2010 – has been the law […]
Group of medical and nutrition experts recommends 36 competencies to address concern that many U.S. physicians are not trained to advise patients about nutrition and food choices. Emily Broad Leib, […]
BÂ Tina Deines. Originally published in The Cool Down on September 27, 2024 Food banks across the world are rescuing food from farmers before it gets thrown out, helping people in […]
By Sean McBride, Barak D. Richman, and Carmel Shachar. Originally published in Health Affairs on September 27, 2024 The statutes, regulations, guidance, policy documents, and manuals that govern how hospitals […]
Originally published in Food Tank. During a Summit hosted by Food Tank and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) during Climate Week NYC, panelists connected the dots between ecosystem health, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 29, 2024 (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) —The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) and Foodbank Vietnam (FBVN) […]
Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH1; Elizabeth Kaplan, JD1 Originally published in JAMA. Published online September 23, 2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.16439 The latest case out of Texas and the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to threaten vital public health […]
By Frida Garza. Originally published in Grist on September 16, 2024. An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, rose faster than ever in […]
By John Card and Elizabeth Kaplan. Originally published on Health Affairs Forefront on September 23, 2024. Incarceration is associated with well-documented, significant negative health impacts, both in terms of health disparities […]
Public health, including programs to prevent and treat infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis C (HCV), is chronically underfunded in the United States. Public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic […]
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Domestic Food Waste Legislation: State Solutions and Calls for Federal ActionÂ
October 3, 2024
By Isabel Yin, FLPC Fall 2024 Student On July 18, California’s legislature filed AJR 10, a resolution advocating for the federal government to enact the Food Date Labeling Act of […]