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Good Day and Thank You!

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative Envisioned and Supported by Jane and Terry Semel

Healthy Campus Initiative

As Chancellor Block said in honor of UCLA going smoke free on Earth Day:

“In order to take care of the Earth, we must take care of ourselves.”

“Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice”

What are the Healthy Campus Initiative Core Values?

• maximizing the potential of individuals

High level wellness

• freedom and autonomy

Personal responsibility

• social groups define health differently;

however they define it is “right”

Diversity

• strive to reduce health disparities as much as

possible

Equity

• Body, mind and spirit are mutually influencing

and emerge in a communal context

Integrative

Organizations & Institutions

Media Law Popular Culture Public Policies Universities Public Parks

Community/Neighborhood

Community leaders Chancellors Employers Farmers Deans Health Care Providers Professors

Student, Staff, Faculty

Friends/Family

Friends Family Neighbors Coworkers Family Culture

In order to Live Well we aim to:

• Mindwell, Eatwell, Bewell, Movewell, Breathwell

Integrate

• Future and Current Leaders in our community.

Educate

• Our graduates who will lead us in the future to Live

Well.

Support

• And share our work with our local, state, national

and international community.

Grow

• Healthful living through creating a campus where

“the healthy choice is the easy choice”

Inspire

Live Well

Move Well Eat Well Mind Well Be Well

Breathe Well

Integrate

UCLA FI UCOP GFI

Support Faculty and Senior Administrator Innovation

• Innovative Courses.
• Pilot Research Projects UCLA Vending Machine

Evaluation.

• In development: small seed grants for graduate and

undergraduate students in Food Studies.

Support

The Healthy Choice is the Easy Choice

• Bruin Plate
• Interstitial gardens
• Food Studies Minor and Certificate Program
• Food Literacy

Grow & Inspire

UCOP Global Food Initiative

UCOP Global Food Initiative

• Work together across the UC system to create solutions that improve

food security, health and sustainability at UC – our campuses, medical centers and national labs – and through California, the U.S. and the world

• Identify best practices to address food needs and create toolkits to

share locally and globally

• Use the latest UC research to help communities access healthy,

sustainable food

• Apply UC expertise to shape and drive food policy discussions

UCOP Global Food Initiative

• Launched in July 2014,
• Addresses one of the critical issues of our time: how to

sustainably and nutritiously feed a world population expected to reach eight billion by 2025.

• More than 20 working groups are underway developing best

practices and toolkits to deploy across UC and share widely throughout California, the nation and the world.

Initial areas of focus include:

• CURRICULA
• OPERATIONS
• SERVICE
• RESEARCH
• POLICY

http://universityofcalifornia.edu/global-food-initiative

UCOP Global Food Initiative

Initial areas of focus include:

• Expanding campus CURRICULA and community

education around food issues, including food equity, supply, production, distribution and consumption.

• Improving food OPERATIONS to leverage food purchasing

power, encourage sustainable farming, empower small growers, and result in zero waste dining.

• Broadening nutritious and sustainable food access and

SERVICE by working with school districts on K-12 dining

• ptions, establishing regular farmers markets on

campuses, and creating a student meal sharing program.

• http://universityofcalifornia.edu/global-food-initiative

UCOP Global Food Initiative

Initial areas of focus include:

• Identifying RESEARCH strengths, gaps and opportunities

in food and sustainable agriculture, and evaluating urban agriculture for reducing food disparities and increasing food security in low-income and underserved neighborhoods; and

• Deploying UC’s research to shape, impact and drive

POLICY discussions around food and agriculture, and elevating food equity as a priority from a wide range of perspectives including public health, immigration, and environment.

http://universityofcalifornia.edu/global-food-initiative

UCOP Global Food Initiative

Grow & Inspire

California, Nationally and Internationally

www.healthy.ucla.edu

UC Global Food Initiative

• http://universityofcalifornia.edu/global-food-initiative

With realization of one’s own potential and self confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Dalai Lama