I have long wanted to put the essentials all in one place for faculty and students interested in real health policy (as we are at KFF). We finally got our act together, with yours truly as editor and our policy experts as chapter authors. New today:

The brilliant @ameliafinaret and I distilled years of teaching and student feedback in this new book, and so happy it's #OpenAccess via @PalgraveEcon, thanks to the @ANH_Academy. It looks great on any device, and in print!

@WenhuiFeng, @Norbert_Wilson and I are co-editing a research topic for @FrontNutrition on "Consumer Behavior, Nutrition and Policy in Novel Food Retail Environments" - if you have relevant work please consider submitting a proposal or manuscript!

Dollar Tree plans to close 1,000 stores

I'm excited to share the video abstract of our study on Dollar Stores and Food Access for Rural Households. Now available on the homepage of @AMJPublicHealth and https://t.co/Hhy81CvwKk @SeanBCash @elinatpage

I'm excited to share this Call for Papers. If you have interesting research on consumer behavior and policy needs in the evolving marketplaces for food, share your work with us!

Our #Health_Affairs article using the VCP @vaccine_trust data w/ @ashfoxly and Leesa Lin was picked as one of the top articles of 2023! We sought to differentiate b/w a lack of interest in vaccination and a lack of access to help achieve global vaccine equity. See details below

I'm excited that our work (with @WenhuiFeng and @ElinaTPage) on #DollarStores and Food Access for Rural Households was one of the 5 most shared papers in @AMJPublicHealth in 2023. Now open access! https://t.co/Ltvv2IxKqZ @TuftsUniversity @TuftsMedSchool @TuftsNutrition @USDA_ERS

⁦@WenhuiFeng⁩ presenting our work with ⁦@elinatpage⁩ on bodyweight status and intensity of food shopping at #DollarStores at #AAEA2023 ⁦@TuftsNutrition⁩ ⁦@TuftsMedSchool⁩ ⁦@USDA_ERS⁩

In case you missed it, the Food Shopping at Dollar Stores webinar recording is available on our website. https://t.co/NKITbml80n Special thank you to @SeanBCash, @janekolodinsky, @WenhuiFeng, @LeChenarides, @CSPI for their help putting this webinar together!

"Improving Unequal Food Access Requires Understanding and Addressing the Social Inequalities That Contribute to It" - thoughtful commentary that builds on the recent paper that @WenhuiFeng, @elinatpage and I published on #DollarStores in @AMJPublicHealth

Tufts University's @WenhuiFeng and @SeanBCash are the first researchers to study the role of dollar stores in household food purchases across the nation. Learn what they found and what it could mean for the health of vulnerable populations. https://t.co/12XzAjEBgz

This JAMA piece summarizes a recent study w/ @SeanBCash @elinapage. Super cool to read the reflections from other researchers on this topic @jerry_shannon and @LeChenarides https://t.co/4djHBw62CU via @JAMA_current part of @JAMANetwork

This CNN piece on the rise of dollar stores as food retailers starts with the recent work that @WenhuiFeng, @elinatpage and I published in @AMJPublicHealth last week, and also mentions the work of Julia McCarthy and @DrCRSingleton on local policies to restrict dollar stores.

Adding to the list @jerry_shannon and @LeChenarides has important work on dollar stores as well.

Did you know that dollar stores are now the fastest growing food retailers in the United States? @nmeyersohn joined to tell us more about the rise of dollar stores and potential concerns.

.@WenhuiFeng, @elinatpage, and @SeanBCash "found that dollar stores were the fastest-growing food retailers by household expenditure share (increasing by 89.7%), with rural growth outpacing growth elsewhere (increasing by 102.9%)." Continue reading here: https://t.co/f80KL69czF

I'm excited to share our latest findings on dollar stores @SeanBCash @elinatpage: More and more Americans are buying their food at dollar stores, especially in rural areas and households that are lower-income or headed by people of color

This is very exciting! Cannot wait to share our findings!