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Bringing Food Equity to the Table

Fruits and vegetables on a wooden table

Accessing healthy food in the GTA is an equity issue. While some people can easily get health, nutritious food others cannot. The availability of these healthy foods vary by neighbourhood and many neighbourhoods don’t support a healthy food environment. With unequal access and availability, food is an equity issue. This think piece talks about two means for tackling food insecurity: through the widely know channel of addressing poverty at its root, and through improving the food environment.

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Laura Anderson

Laura Anderson

Laura Anderson was a researcher at Wellesley Institute from 2015 to 2017. She holds an MPH in Global Health (Public Nutrition) from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of Toronto. Laura has community-based and population health research experience with diverse populations in Canada and internationally, exploring household food insecurity and determinants of health such as migration status and experience, access to and the cultural competence of healthcare for minority groups, and social exclusion.