A community-based system dynamics approach suggests solutions for improving healthy food access in a low-income urban environment

• Yeeli Mui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yeeli Mui, Ellis Ballard, Eli Lopatin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yeelimui@buffalo.edu

  Affiliation Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5101-4096

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• Ellis Ballard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yeeli Mui, Ellis Ballard, Eli Lopatin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Social System Design Lab, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

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• Eli Lopatin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yeeli Mui, Ellis Ballard, Eli Lopatin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Reservoir Hill Improvement Council; Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Rachel L. J. Thornton ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Child and Community Health Research, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Keshia M. Pollack Porter ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Institute for Health and Social Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Joel Gittelsohn

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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