News & Commentary
On July 19, 2015, “Last Week Tonight,” HBO’s satirical news program highlighted the enormous problems of food waste, expiration dates, and challenges to donating products to food pantries. Using clips from […]
Kirsten Van Fossen is a first-year PhD student from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, where she researches with the Centre for Industrial Sustainability. In her project, Kirsten is […]
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates CHLPI has just released a new report, Food is Prevention: The Case for Integrating Food and Nutrition Interventions into […]
Article excerpt from The Economist: Americans increasingly like to buy local food. The number of farmers’ markets offering local produce, cakes and jams around the country has more than doubled […]
In July 2015 CHLPI released the white paper Food Banks as Partners in Health Promotion: Creating Connections for Client & Community Health. Food banks are embedded in local communities across the […]
The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation PATHS program just released the report Reconsidering Cost-Sharing for Diabetes Self-Management Education: Recommendations for Policy Reform (June 2015). Diabetes self-management education (DSME) provides a […]
On June 30, 2015, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, along with researchers from Brown University Department of Medicine, Rhode Island’s Miriam Hospital, Treatment Action Group, and Kirby […]
On Thursday, June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court in King v. Burwell upheld the Government’s provision of health care insurance subsidies to lower-income individuals living in states with Federally-run health insurance exchanges. This […]
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded a grant of $261,965 to the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) at Vermont Law School and Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic […]
The Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) is excited to host the first Food Law Student Leadership Summit, which will provide a forum for training, networking, and engagement among […]
The blog for aids.gov, the federally-run website for information about the government’s agencies and programs engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment, policy, and research efforts in the United States, highlighted CHLPI’s […]
Food Law & Policy, Commentary
Food Policy in Our Hometown: Partnering with the Boston Food Policy Council
June 24, 2015
By: Caitlin Matthews (Summer Intern, Tufts M.A./M.S. ’17) As interns at the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), we have many opportunities to connect with innovative leaders and participate […]