Thank you to our funders (in alphabetical order): Community Food Funders, North Star Fund (and for all their coordination) Laurie M. A recent op ed in the Daily News summarizes the key take away messages.Īcknowledgements: The following individuals, listed in alphabetical order, helped prepare this report: Alexina Cather, MPH Yvonne Chow, MFA Nevin Cohen, PhD, MCRP Elizabeth Eilender, MS, RD Ann Ebrecht, PhD Katherine Tomaino Fraser, MSPH, RD Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH Melissa Gallanter, RD Rositsa Ilieva, PhD Pamela Koch, EdD, RD May May Leung, PhD, RDN Julia McCarthy, JD Yvette Ng, MS MBA Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH Sarah Shapiro Raynika Trent, MS, EdM and Craig Willingham, MPH.
The full text of the report is available at the link above. Finally, it suggests strategies to enable New York City’s food system to respond to a possible resurgence of the epidemic in the future or to utilize new opportunities to open and rebuild the City.
The report recommends possible steps the City can take to minimize the inequitable distribution of burdens of the pandemic by socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity. These recommendations focus on how to minimize the harms and maximize the opportunities to address the underlying problems the pandemic has exacerbated. The report also discusses the creation and early implementation of some of the City’s responses to COVID-19 related food system changes and offers concrete actions that public officials and agencies, civil society groups and others can take. In this first report of NY Food 20/20, the Centers examine the effects of the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences on New York’s food system and the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers. Our organizations collaborated to produce the first independent assessment of the effects of COVID-19 on the city’s food system and an assessment of the many public and private responses. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at Columbia University have joined forces to monitor and assess New York City’s food system response to COVID-19 to date and over the next 18 months. The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, in collaboration with Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center and Laurie M.
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