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Provides an overview of how acute and chronic disasters affect food systems, describes actions to support food security, and discusses public health roles. Shares stories and insights from guest speakers at the cutting edge of policy, practice, and research, from community to global scale. Explores concepts of food systems, resilience, preparedness, and equity. Reviews strengths, limitations, and unintended consequences of responses. Discusses how systemic factors (e.g., poverty, racism, and unsustainable food systems) affect outcomes. Challenges students to explore diverse perspectives and constraints, build on assets, and envision responses for emergency needs and longer-term systemic change.