Meeting 1
JHU Student GovernmentCommittee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #1 8 SEPTEMBER 2026 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Student Center
ATTENDANCEAbraham Aini, Sophia Baleeiro, Julia Lee, Srika Popuri, Grace Wang, Ayan Vaishnav, Arjun Jasuja
ABSENTExcused: Aishani GargUnexcused: Christina Nguyen
AGENDA
Last Meeting Follow-up
New Business
- Introductions
- HSS Past Initiatives
- Goals for the semester
- RSOs/Departments with ideas
- Initiatives
- HSS Vice-Chair
NOTES
Last Meeting Follow-up
New Business
- Initiatives
- Tanisha - Narcan dispensation and Narcan training during o-week
- Arjun - mental health/stigma around South Asians
- Sophia - police around campus, safety around campus, resources related to this, immigration
- Julia - safety around campus in the evening
- Buddy system?
- Student inventory of supplies that can be re-used
- Books, clothing?
- Shared community garden
- Be more active with it?
- Integrate the food we grow and help students to cook the food we grow
- Blue Jay Perch - garden at former high school
- Produce is split among members
- Shared garden space where students can grow food - then students can cook and eat it together
- Interactive activity for gratitude comments and sharing kind comments
- Scan QR code to engage with it
- Rank ideas and ask students to vote through this
- Scan QR code to engage with it
- Look at relationship between mental health and AI
- Potentially a student survey around this?
- Grace - mental health
- Collaborate with PEEP
- Have interact brain breaks (DDR machines)
- General programming for mental health
- Collaborate with PEEP
- Srika - nutrition
- Do fresh fruit drive again
- Teach better eating habits/seminars
- Work with FFC to go through meal prep to make it more nutritional
- Abraham - mental health programming
- Narcan training
- Have more emphasis on student-run health groups
- Increasing collaboration between those groups
- SARU gets trained by APPT and APTT gets trained by SARU
- Increase student awareness of these clubs
- Ayan - come up with something later
- Groupings:
- Mental Health Programming: Arjun, Ayan, Grace, Abraham
- Look into the MH task force?
- Nutrition: Julia, Srika, Sophia
- Mental Health Programming: Arjun, Ayan, Grace, Abraham
- Tanisha - Narcan dispensation and Narcan training during o-week
ACTION ITEMS
- Both groups (Mental Health Programming + Nutrition) come up with one concrete event/programing/legislation you want to enact
- Message Tanisha before next meeting if you are interested in Vice Chair
Meeting 2
JHU Student GovernmentCommittee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #2 22 SEPTEMBER 2026 / Minutes By: Srika Popuri / Location: Student Center
ATTENDANCESrika, Tanisha, Grace, Mamdou, Oluwanifemi, Sophia Baleeiro
ABSENTExcused: Aishani Garg, Abraham Aini, Julia Lee, Ayan Vaishnav, Arjun Jasuja
AGENDA
Last Meeting Follow-up
New Business
- VIce Chair
- Initiatives Updates
NOTES
Last Meeting Follow-up
New Business
- Appointing Srika Popuri as Vice Chair
- Brain breaks
- Partner with other mental health groups to work on an initiative related to brain breaks
- Srika
- Fresh fruit tabling
- Funding bill needs to be drafted for it
- Partnerships with Food as Medicine?
- October 16 - World Food Day (9am - 12pm)
- Femi: 9-10
- Mamdou: 9-1030
- Berries? → more than last year
- Narcan Training - Mamdou/Tanisha
- Putting them in vending machines
- Potentially moving HSS meeting to Sunday’s at 7 or 8 pm
ACTION ITEMS
- Grace
- 2 orgs to partner with for the brain breaks and an event brainstorm that we can run in partnership with them
- Srika/Tanisha
- Funding bill for nutrition
- Tanisha - Reach out to Jacki about Narcan initiative
Meeting 3
JHU Student GovernmentCommittee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #3 4 OCTOBER 2026 / Minutes By: Srika Popuri / Location: Student Center
ATTENDANCESrika, Tanisha, Oluwanifemi, Sophia Baleeiro, Aishani Garg, Julia Lee, Abraham Aini,
ABSENTExcused: Grace Wang, MamdouUnexcused: Arjun Jasuja, Ayan Vaishnav
AGENDA
Last Meeting Follow-up
New Business
- Nutrition Tabling
- Initiative Updates
NOTES
Last Meeting Follow-up
- Nutrition Tabling (Date: October 30)
- Julia: 9-11
- Srika: 9-12
- Aishani : 9-10
- Oluwanifemi: 9-10
- Sophia:
- Abraham: 11-12
- October 30th: 9:30am-12pm
- Nutritious snacks
- Fiber heavy snacks
- Olipops
- Initiative Updates
- Mental Health
- Bingo with Student Well-Being Office (SS committee)
- Sexual Assault Event (SARU)
- Resolution
- Mental Health Event
- Different stations
- Next semester, beginning or near finals
- Or mental health packs
- SNACK Packs
- Different stations
- Nutrition
- Nutrition Tabling on October 30th
- Nutrition Tabling Supplies Funding Bill
- Trivia
- Canva flyer (fiber)
- Aishani + Julia: research on fibers (putting it on the tabling trivia doc)
- Tanisha: make Canva flyer
- Nutrition x culture x health Event for kimchi/fermentated food+ drinks (kombucha) x health science
- Collaborate with KASA, and Food as medicine
- Taste: Serve three or four banchan.
- Learn: Give a short explanation of each dish’s history or preparation.
- When’s a good date to do this?--> February
- Potentially next semester (Feb)
- Nutrition Tabling on October 30th
- Sustainability
- Composting - Waste Management
- Sort the trash and food waste -> make it into a game
- Maybe in front of FFC
- Composting - Waste Management
- Mental Health
New Business
ACTION ITEMS
- Abraham + Nfemi -> Determine SARU event
- Sophia & Aishani - October 18th -> solidified waste management event
- Aishani & Julia - research on Canva
- Julia- research on fibers, 2 trivia questions
- Put the fermentation event on the back burner for now
- Everyone - complete 2 questions for the nutrition tabling
Meeting 4
JHU Student GovernmentCommittee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #4 11 OCTOBER 2026 / Minutes By: Srika Popuri / Location: Student Center
ATTENDANCETanisha, Grace Wang, Abraham Aini, Ayan Vaishnav
ABSENTExcused: Srika, Aishani Garg, Julia Lee, Mamdou, Sophia BaleeiroUnexcused:
AGENDA
Last Meeting Follow-up
New Business
- Nutrition Tabling
- Initiative Updates
- Sexual Assault Initiative
NOTES
Last Meeting Follow-up
- Sexual Assault Initiative
- Jacki Stone Email
- Potential Small Group Trainings?
- Concerns: fraternities might not like it, similar to BIT
- Potentially improve BIT?
- Potential Small Group Trainings?
- Abraham’s initiative on this
- Two parts: Campus/Student Culture + Admin Focus
- Campus/Student Culture: students are now more aware of sexual violence -> have a tabling to say what you can do ot present sexual violence
- Better prepare people who care about this
- Campus/student culture tabling Ideas: 1. Teach students how to get involved in organizations that are related to sexual violence
- Second part: interpersonally - how can you present sexual violence? What does sexual assault look like? If you see something that is off, say something. Believe a survivor! -> put the Hopkins contacts for this, refraining from making jokes from rape and related jokes
- How information will be presented: Explain to people that culture (interpersonal aspect), signs of sexual assault, intervening when you say something,
- Flyer: organizations to get involved in
- Another flyer with interpersonal information
- Get a prize if you listen to some speech about SA
- Potentially have students to answer questions after the speech?
- APTT - not mandated reporters,
- Develop a help line for employed students to figure out if they have been sexually assaulted
- Have it legally confidential, but no mandated reporting
- SARC - not mandated reporters, student sit on shift, but have to report abuse, able to provide resources and semi advice
- M-F 7-9pm
- During your shift, there is a google chat to respond as well
- Admin tabling idea: spreading awareness that sexual assault is ALSO a JHU issue -> information from climate survey, sexual misconduct
- Letter that goes to OIE with key concerns, questions to ask, student concerns on what admin is doing/not doing
- Result: send actionable items to admiN
- Increase awareness about frats and phrases surrounding them
- Teach about what consent is!
- Two parts: Campus/Student Culture + Admin Focus
- Grace - nature walk for mental health
- Students may not want to commit to trips for the entire
- Have a JHOC member lead a short trip!
- SGA x JHOC x PEEP - any student that wants to go on a walk can go
- Reading Week event?
- Maybe make the walk interactive and have food!
- Potentially have a mini arcade during reading week?
- Nutrition
- Put 2 questions in the doc before next Sunday
- Jacki Stone Email
New Business
ACTION ITEMS
- Abraham - note down the cases from APTT/SARC to determine if these resources are being utilized + make the tabling more interactive?
- Everyone - put question and answers in the document
Meeting 5
JHU Student GovernmentCommittee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #5 18 OCTOBER 2026 / Minutes By: Srika Popuri / Location: BLC
ATTENDANCETanisha, Srika, Aishani, Mamadou, Sophia
ABSENTExcused: Grace, Abraham, Ayan, JuliaUnexcused:
AGENDA
Last Meeting Follow-up
New Business
- Nutrition Tabling
- Questions: Nutiriton Tabling Trivia
- Timing for Assembling the Fruit Cups/Adding fiber info onto the snacks
- Sexual Assault Tabling + Ideas
- Abraham: updates on APTT/SARC usage?
- Sustainability Initiative
- Any other initiatives
NOTES
Last Meeting Follow-up
New Business
- Nutrition Tabling
- Questions: Nutiriton Tabling Trivia
- Timing for Assembling the Fruit Cups/Adding fiber info onto the snacks
- 7-8pm on 29th - Srika’s house
- Julia
- Won’t be able to join today, but here are some thoughts I wanted to share
- Finished adding trivia questions!
- Finished doing the fiber research!
- For nutrition tabling, instead of limiting ourselves to tabling, what if we just integrate core Nutrition related to trivia and quiz on the dining hall screens ( to serve it as an educational purpose?) and to keep students better informed?
- Sexual Assault Tabling + Ideas
- Abraham: updates on APTT/SARC usage?
- SARU - what happens if there is a specific hazing incident from a frat - what happens after? More restrictions
- Say what happens when there is hazing
- Ppl have gotten away with sexual assault and not in trouble
- Better version of BIT (SARU has better training than BIT)
- Shame based training
- Hazing prevention make it better
- Student 3rd party monitors
- Sexual assault agency - third party place
- Anonymous listening sessions
- SARU - what happens if there is a specific hazing incident from a frat - what happens after? More restrictions
- Abraham: updates on APTT/SARC usage?
- Sustainability Initiative
- Will be updated next week
- Any other initiatives
ACTION ITEMS
Tab 4
Proposed Health & Well-Being Committee Project SummaryPurposeThe committee will support student well-being through practical, peer-engaged programming. It will identify student needs, collaborate with existing campus services and student groups, and help students access useful information and support. The committee should complement existing programs rather than duplicate them.
1.Mental Health, Connection, and Digital Well-BeingDescription: Create low-barrier opportunities for students to connect, learn about mental health, and try practical strategies for managing stress and phone habits.Proposed programming:An interactive mental health event with stations, brain breaks, or bingo, in collaboration with the Student Well-Being Office, PEEP, and student groups.Student-led sessions on sustainable phone habits, such as recognizing scrolling triggers and testing practical alternatives.Programming that addresses mental health stigma, including stigma in South Asian communities.Mental health or snack packs if a campus partner identifies a student need.Intended outcome: Students feel more connected and leave knowing at least one practical strategy or campus resource they can use.
2.Food, Culture, Health, and SustainabilityDescription: Explore how food access, cultural traditions, and the environment shape health and everyday food choices.Proposed programming:October 30 nutrition tabling: Offer a meal or sample, explain its fiber-containing ingredients, share accessible options, and collect student feedback about barriers to finding fiber-rich foods on campus. Follow up with Dining Services.Proposed February cultural food event: Partner with KASA and Food as Medicine to share several foods, such as banchan or fermented foods, through tasting and short explanations of their cultural history, preparation, and relationship to place and health.Connect future work with campus gardening, cooking, composting, or food-waste reduction where there is a clear partner and purpose.Intended outcome: Students gain practical nutrition information and a richer understanding of how food connects to culture, place, and health. Health claims will be evidence-based, and cultural partners will help shape how their food traditions are represented.
3.Safety, Prevention, and Peer SupportDescription: Help students find and access practical safety resources through collaboration with trained campus organizations.Proposed programming:Naloxone education and training in partnership with qualified campus providers.Sexual-assault prevention and resource awareness with SARU and APTT, including possible cross-training.Evening safety resources, such as a buddy-system proposal and clearer information about where students can seek help.Intended outcome: Students know where to find support and have opportunities to receive relevant, partner-led safety training.How the Committee Will WorkFor each project, the committee will:Identify the student need and intended audience.Check what services or events already exist.Ask relevant campus partners what support would be useful.Agree on one committee contribution, such as outreach, logistics, student feedback, or a focused event.Review whether the project helped students access information, support, or a practical resource.The October 30 nutrition table is the immediate project. The other activities are proposals to scope with partners before scheduling.
Digital well-being: helping students build sustainable relationships with technology through practical, student-led behavior-change activities.
- Help students understand how technology design and everyday cues can encourage automatic phone use, then explore practical, evidence-informed ways to respond.
- Health: fiber feeds your gut bacteria, and fermented foods add live bacteria. Banchan covers both.
- Culture: kimchi and banchan are centuries of food knowledge, not a wellness trend.
- Sustainability: fermentation began as a way to preserve harvests and reduce waste, and banchan are mostly plant-based.
- Dining: banchan is built around variety and sharing, which is the “add more plants” approach in practice.
That gives you a clear story for the event: traditional food practices were doing gut health and sustainability long before science named them.
A possible format (about 90 minutes)
- Taste (20 min): three or four banchan chosen to show different angles:
- Kimchi, fermented and the star of the event
- Kongnamul (seasoned soybean sprouts), a high-fiber legume
- Sigeumchi namul (spinach), a simple vegetable dish
- Gamja jorim (braised potatoes) or a pickle like mu (radish), a familiar entry point
- Kombucha can be the drink. Pair each dish with a small card covering where it comes from, what’s in it, and one health or sustainability fact.
- Story (20 min): a KASA member shares the cultural side, such as family kimjang (kimchi-making) traditions or what banchan means at a Korean table. A Food as Medicine member or a faculty guest covers the science: fiber, short-chain fatty acids and the gut microbiome.
- Play (20 min): your nutrition trivia, extended with fermentation and sustainability questions.
- Ask (15 min): a quick survey or poll on what students want to see in the dining halls. This step makes the event matter beyond the night itself.
The dining hall connectionTreat the event as a pilot for a longer-term idea. Invite Dining Services to co-host or cater, collect student feedback, and use it to pitch something lasting, like a rotating banchan bar or a monthly “food as medicine” feature. A packed event with survey data showing demand is far more persuasive than a proposal alone.
Logistics to check early
- Food rules: campus events often require food from approved caterers or Dining Services, especially for homemade or fermented foods. Ask your student activities office before planning to make kimchi yourselves.
- Kombucha: it contains small amounts of alcohol and caffeine, so confirm it’s allowed under your event’s policies, and label it.
- Allergens: banchan often contains fish sauce, sesame, soy and shellfish, so label every dish.
Event name ideas: Gut Feelings: Food, Culture & the Microbiome · Banchan & Biology · Fermented Futures