Research and Justice For All: Dion's Chicago Dream Fights Food Insecurity One Meal At A Time

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Guest: Dion Dawson, Chief Dreamer and CEO, Dion's Chicago Dream

In the first episode of the second season of Research and Justice For All, host Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Dion Dawson from Dion's Chicago Dream about innovative ways to address food insecurity. They also explore the nonprofit industrial complex and the systemic link between hunger and profit in the US.

This season is sponsored by Deloitte.

Learn more about Deloitte's work with Drivers of Health or the Deloitte Health Equity Institute.

Related Links:  

• Fresh food as medicine for the heartburn of high prices (Deloitte)
• Health Affairs theme issue: Food & Health
• Meals On Wheels Clients: Measurable Differences In The Likelihood Of Aging In Place Or Being Hospitalized (Health Affairs) 
• Race And Racial Perceptions Shape Burden Tolerance For Medicaid And The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Health Affairs)  
• Measuring and Addressing Nutrition Security to Achieve Health and Health Equity (Health Affairs) 

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