Lauren Dunning is a lawyer and public health practitioner whose work has focused on developing strategies to promote urban food systems that contribute to reductions in the burden of both chronic and communicable diseases. She graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, receiving a joint JD/MPH.
This course examines the role for planning in addressing various forms of urban agriculture as well as many examples from around the country of the statutes, policy, and practices implementing interventions in food production at urban scales.
This course introduces information from legal and public health perspectives on the retail side of food systems entities, such as farmers markets, grocery stores, and mobile vending.