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Sarah Wells Kocsis
Sarah Wells Kocsis is a director, Public Health, at the Milken Institute, where she leads a portf
olio of work focused on prevention, chronic disease, infrastructure, and other timely issues that are critical to advancing the role of public health in sup
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Lena Flaum
Lena Flaum is a senior associate with the Milken Institute Center for Public Health, focusing on
addiction and mental health.
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Policy Brief: Improving Women, Infants, and Children’s Access to Food and Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
To address the impact that the COVID-19 virus is having on food access, this issue brief highlights
recent policies and puts forward a recommendation to ensure that the over 6 million individuals who participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Pro
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Fixing the Food Supply Chain Could Prevent a Future, Even More Nightmarish Pandemic
There is a clear need, post-pandemic, for collaborative thinking on how to build immune resilience i
nto older cohorts to reduce the risks of viruses such as COVID-19—and, potentially worse, deadly bacterial infections., Fixing the food supply chain would go a long way to reducing pandemic risks in the future, while massively advancing healthy aging., The area I want to touch on briefly relates to the work on food I have been doing during lockdown—specifically, the zoonotic origin of pandemics.
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