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COVID-19 Exposed Weakness in Ensuring Healthy Food Access in Child Care

Q&A with Kate Bauer

When child care programs across the country closed due to COVID, millions of children lost access to the healthy food they had been receiving through the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program, exposing the weakness in our country's systems for ensuring young, low-income children have access to healthy food.

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Trish Koman Receives Distinguished Service Award from APHA Environment Section

Trish Koman, research investigator in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award for her contributions to the American Public Health Association’s Environment Section during the APHA Annual Meeting on Monday, October 26.

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University of Michigan Epidemiologist Arnold Monto To Lead COVID-19 Vaccine Hearings

Arnold Monto, a leading epidemiologist at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, will serve as acting chair of the Vaccines and Related committee Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting. The committee, which provides advice to the Food and Drug Administration, will discuss the development, authorization and licensure of vaccines to prevent COVID-19.