The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a non-profit health-advocacy group based in Washington, DC, that focuses on nutrition and food safety. CSPI publishes Nutrition Action, one of the nation’s largest circulation health newsletter, and has led efforts that resulted in healthier diets, more-nutritious school foods, safer foods, and more honest food labeling. CSPI provides objective information to the public and represents citizens’ interests before legislative, regulatory, and judicial bodies. CSPI is supported largely by subscribers to Nutrition Action, individual donors, and foundation grants.
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Concerned about how the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning the Chevron deference will affect your advocacy work? CSPI has you covered! Join us on Thursday, August 6th for a free webinar Emily Friedman, CSPI's Legal Affairs Attorney, breaks it down for you. Register below 👇👇
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Happening this Thursday at 2pm EST! Come join us for this FREE webinar, "From State to Plate: The Ripple Effect of Local Nutrient Warning Policies". Register below 👇
Register for our next CSPI Resource Hub Series right here on LinkedIn! Join us on July 25th at 2pm EST for a free webinar hosted by DeAnna Nara PhD, MSc, LDN, CNS, CSPI Senior Policy Associate. DeAnna will be exploring how nutrient warnings on restaurant menus can be used to reduce the purchases of unhealthy foods and drinks, encourage reformulation, and build stronger, healthier, communities.
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Register for the new CSPI Resource Hub event here! 👉 https://lnkd.in/d3v-xaGx Join us Thursday, July 25th at 2pm EST for a FREE webinar with DeAnna Nara PhD, MSc, LDN, CNS, Senior Policy Associate at CSPI, exploring how nutrient warnings on restaurant menus can be used to reduce the purchases of unhealthy foods and drinks, encourage reformulation, and build stronger, healthier, communities.
CSPI is beginning the fall internship recruitment season! We’re offering three part-time internships for up to 10 hours per week for 10 weeks. The hourly pay rate is $17.50. ◾ Healthy Food Access Internship ◾ Sustainability Labeling Internship ◾ Values-Aligned Food Procurement Internship All positions are listed on CSPI’s Career page on our website below 👇 #intern #internship #openinternship #foodpolicy #sustainability https://lnkd.in/dHGwPRSu
Register for our next CSPI Resource Hub Series right here on LinkedIn! Join us on July 25th at 2pm EST for a free webinar hosted by DeAnna Nara PhD, MSc, LDN, CNS, CSPI Senior Policy Associate. DeAnna will be exploring how nutrient warnings on restaurant menus can be used to reduce the purchases of unhealthy foods and drinks, encourage reformulation, and build stronger, healthier, communities.
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Rounding out our amazing summer interns are Alyssa S. Moreno and Sarahjeet Dosanjh! As a Child Nutrition Policy intern, Sarahjeet will be working with CSPI to strengthen state and local K-12 school meal policy advocacy through coalition building and policy research. Sarahjeet is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Public Health at UCLA. Passionate about the intersection of preventative health and food, she strives to continue working towards a sustainable, nutritious, equitable food system within the field of public health. Alyssa is a Capacity Building and Engagement Intern this summer, working on updating CSPIs Resource Hub for our allies and partners in food and health policy. Alyssa is currently pursuing her MPH in Health and Social Behavior at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. After this internship, Alyssa hopes to continue work in building power and capacity for grassroots communities working toward food and nutrition justice. #publichealth #nutrition #foodequity #health #intern #summerintern
From The The Wall Street Journal: "Medical experts say Celsius’s fat-burning and metabolism-boosting messages are misleading. 'The studies they use to justify their claims have substantial design flaws with small sample sizes and were conducted over short periods of time,' says Aviva Musicus, science director at [CSPI]." https://lnkd.in/ecf7dXJR
Continuing our welcome of our summer interns, we'd like to highlight Levi Jiang and Emmanuel A. Gyimah, MPH. Levi is pursuing a Master's degree in Communication at the University of Washington. This summer, she joined CSPI as a Communications Intern, working closely with the Communications Team to create social media videos and enhance website user experience. Levi aims to gain experience in using multimedia channels to promote public health topics during her internship at CSPI, preparing for further exploration in the science communication world. Emmanuel is a second-year doctoral student in Nutritional Biology at the University of California, Davis. This summer, he joined the team as a Food Additives Intern, where he will focus on revising and updating CSPI's Chemical Cuisine database. Following this internship, Emmanuel aims to apply his new skills to his current research on policies and decision-making around food fortification programs, with the goal of optimizing population health while minimizing potential risks. #intern #internship #publichealth #nonprofit
CSPI Deputy Director Joelle Johnson, MPH is quoted in the Washington Post today talking about how price guarantees for commodities aren't actually going towards small farmers. Instead, they tend to help larger industrial operations. “'It’s a lot of money going to a very small number of farmers, representing a very small number of counties in the U.S., who already are receiving significant payments anyway from this program,' said Joelle Johnson, deputy director at [CSPI]" https://lnkd.in/ektCeWuf
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"This latest report from IFIC, and the headlines surrounding it, are an important reminder that advocates, policymakers, and the media should approach industry-funded research with extreme caution." Check out my breakdown of the bias on display in industry-funded research on front-of-package nutrition labeling. https://lnkd.in/eyH2ju4B