Designing Health Equity: The Intersection of Food Systems, Urban Planning, and Policy

3 Credits.

Introduces urban and regional planning as an integral part of addressing structural determinants of food and nutrition disparities. Examines the network of actors, infrastructure, resources, power relationships, and local government policies that influence health inequalities in food systems in communities of the US and globally. Includes topics related to food security such as land use, food production, gentrification, environmental sustainability, conflict and trauma, and mobility and transportation. Encourages students’ critical thinking in how to reimagine and reshape food and community systems for social, economic, and health equity.