Sarah Buranskas
Pittsburgh Food Policy Council
About this speaker
Sarah Buranskas, MPH provides outreach, coordination, and research support to the Pittsburgh Food Policy Council’s working groups, subcommittees, and related projects. She manages the Council's USDA Regional Food Systems Partnership grant, focusing on institutions and barriers to local purchasing. Previously, she worked as an AmeriCorps Community HealthCorps member at Federally Qualified Health Centers aiding patients with state benefit applications, as well as a volunteer and site coordinator at urban gardens in both Lansing, MI and Santiago, Chile. In Chile, she was a research assistant on the school food environment in Santiago public schools, specifically focusing on the free school meals program. She completed a Master of Public Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where she focused on health behavior and food systems.
