The UB Food Lab is a research group that focuses on the role of community-led planning and policy in creating equitable health and food systems.
The Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab (‘the UB Food Lab’), a research group led by Dr. Samina Raja, housed in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo (UB) is dedicated to research that critically examines the role of planning and local government policy in facilitating equitable community health and food communities.
The Food Lab’s research unfolds in collaboration with other research groups within and outside UB, as well as in partnership with community and planning organizations and local governments in the United States and globally. Drawing on its research, the Food Lab team provides technical assistance to community advocates, planners, and local governments on the use of policy and planning to create equitable food systems and healthy communities.
To conduct action research on planning to create community health and food systems
Articles, policy toolkits, and databases
