Public Health Has a Weight Problem

This week we have one of our favorite guests BACK on the podcast talking about the many ways fatphobia shows up in public health initiatives. Marquisele Mercedes is a doctoral student and writer from the Bronx and her doctoral training and interests are at the intersection of fat studies and scholarship on race/ism. She looks at how racism, anti-Blackness, and fatphobia shape health care, research, and public health work and training. 

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

• Fatphobic messaging in public health initiatives • How weight-centered initiatives harm POC communities • Effective ways to increase food access with public health funding• What food equity is and to get it + MORE! 

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