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Food Security

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Fellow in Urban Leadership Yeeun Yoo
Urban Development
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People Janet Currie
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University Co-Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
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Article February 14, 2023 Rooted in Research: Greening Cities for Health, Safety, and Well-Being Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
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Fellow Patricia L. Smith
Strategy Advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Inclusive Economies Working Group, National League of Cities and The Stories of Us
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Fellow María Alicia Becdach
MSC. Architecture & Urban Design Columbia University
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
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Fellow Ira Goldstein
Senior Advisor, Policy Solutions Group, Reinvestment Fund
Urban Development Housing + 2
Affiliated PhD Student Maryam Khojasteh
PhD Candidate, City and Regional Planning, School of Design, University of Pennslyvania
Urban Development
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Faculty Fellow Jere Behrman
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics
Climate Change & Resilience
Research Paper December 17, 2015 Penn IUR Research Digest: Housing Finance Reform Abstracts were adapted from chapters of an upcoming book edited by Susan Wachter and Joseph Tracy, "Housing Finance Reform: Principles of Stability." Housing State & Local Finance
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Faculty Fellow Eliza Whiteman Kinsey
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine Senior Fellow, Penn Center for Public Health Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute
Article March 19, 2015 Feeding Urban Communities: A Look at Disparities in Food Access and Nutritional Consumption Penn IUR Emerging Scholar Jesse Handbury writes about how large nutritional disparities exist across different socioeconomic groups in the United States. Jessie Handbury Anchor Institutions
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Faculty Fellow Jessie Handbury
Gilbert and Shelley Harrison Associate Professor, Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
Urban Development
Fellow Sheela Patel
Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) Ambassador to the race to resilience
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3
Scholar Janet Currie
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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Faculty Fellow Domenic Vitiello
Associate Professor
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Scholar Catherine Brinkley
Associate Professor, University of California, Davis
Climate Change & Resilience
Article April 10, 2013 How Philanthropy Responds to Critical Issues of Food Security in a Rapidly Urbanizing World In 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation’s one-hundredth year, we have been deeply analyzing the issues and strengths that defined our first century. Rapid Urbanization Anchor Institutions

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