“Smart Foodsheds” project aims to improve food security in Columbus, Sacramento

A new NSF-funded project involving CPH assistant professor of environmental health sciences Ayaz Hyder, PhD, focuses on improving food security and community health through smarter regional food systems.

Although food is mass produced to feed the world’s population, health and nutritional disparities like food insecurity still affect millions of lives. Working to address these disparities is Ayaz Hyder, PhD, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the College of Public Health. Hyder is co-principal investigator on a new National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project aimed at improving food security and community health through smarter regional food systems.

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Header Image: Ayaz Hyder, PhD, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the College of Public Health. (Photo courtesy of University Marketing at Ohio State)

 

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