The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Watershed Moment to Strengthen Food Security Across the US Food System

Affiliations

¹ Carmen Byker Shanks is with the Department of Health and Human Development, Food and Health Lab, Montana State University, Bozeman. Melanie D. Hingle is with the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson. Courtney A. Parks and Amy L. Yaroch are with the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, Omaha, NE.

Editorial

Carmen Byker Shanks et al. Am J Public Health. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;110(8):1133-1134.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305760.

¹ Carmen Byker Shanks is with the Department of Health and Human Development, Food and Health Lab, Montana State University, Bozeman. Melanie D. Hingle is with the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson. Courtney A. Parks and Amy L. Yaroch are with the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, Omaha, NE.

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